
Film Noir
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Filmnoir - Is Out of the Past a Film?
The emfatal in that film kind of basically she converts and becomes his vals. She hasn't killed anyone, but she's clearly an evil, doing, corrupt person. And what's interesting to me is that there is this kind of dynamic between how does the hero relate to the famvetal rightlike? Does he try to convert her? To being a good spouse. That's what happens. So it's,. i think not every noir has a thum fatal, but i do think that that figure is the centre of the noir, because she represents the obscene enjoy men. But at the same time, most feminist film theorists love filmnir, and most feminist historians
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