Blog #4

The two questions that I decided to pick from the handout are questions 1, and 6. I am going to start with question 6 though, because question 1 talks about the ending between the novel and the movie.

Question 6:

In my opinion, I think that Double Indemnity is nightmarish, because it would be a nightmare to find out that your wife and your insurance agent is planning your murder. Also I think that it would be a nightmare when Walter and Phyllis finally realize that they have committed a murder together, and at anytime either one of them can tell on the other person.

In my opinion I think that Double Indemnity is weird because Walter falls in love to fast with every woman he meets. He met Phyllis and he thought that he was in love with her, and he did everything for her. He even committed a murder for her. Then he meets Lola, and after he has already murdered her father, and realizes that the only relationship he ever had with Phyllis was when they were planning the murder of Mr. Nirdlinger, he decides he is in love with Lola to, and that he would do anything for her as well. Also I thought it was weird when he said he was in love with Lola because of their HUGE age difference.

In my opinion I think that Double Indemnity is cruel because of everyone Phyllis has murdered in her life. I think that it is cruel that she killed Mrs. Nirdlinger when she was her nurse, and I also think that is was cruel of all those patients, and the children she killed. I do think that it was very cruel of her and Walter to kill Mr. Nirdlinger, but I personally feel that Phyllis should have been murdered because of everything she had done, and Walter get caught in the end.

Question 1:

I think that the contrasts from the ending of the novel and the ending of the film, is they have different endings. The ending in the novel is Phyllis and Walter end up on a ship together heading to Mexico, you don’t really know if one of them killed the other one first, or if they killed themselves. The ending in the film is Walter kills Phyllis after she shoots him in the shoulder, then Walter goes back to his office and confess everything to Keyes.

In my opinion I think the ending in the film is more film noir, because of the lighting it had when Walter was in the house with Phyllis, and I couldn’t really picture the lighting in the book. And I personally liked the ending in the film better.