Film noir is one grim joke. The butt of the joke is the male protagonist. He is trapped in a Kafkaesque world, where he is subjected against two fascinations: death and dames. Both transfigures as the two poles that render his life absurd and meaningless. Both conversely play different roles. Death is the sad finality that wrings his private lives. Everytime he is about to prove his worth, death comes knocking and undoes all the good works he has done. Dames become the only resort for him to gain control in his troubled life. Only in love, he could make sense of the world around him. Women conjures in him the initiative to create something. Unfortunately, in film noir, death and dames is one cruel cycle. After death, woman. After woman, death. Our hero is never fully redeemed.
—A paragraph I wrote as a side note for my final assignment, inspired by several existential literatures and DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wilder, 1944)
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