Film Noir Themes

1. The article says for the story concept, the film noir presents dark themes such as desolation, detachment, iniquity, pessimism, etc. The story is complex and perplexing. In the filmmaking technicality, the directors employ strong shadow lighting techniques (often use one single source of light to create strong shadow, deep focus and unusual extreme camera angles. The sound also intensely gripping to form suspense.

2. They are a predatory character that uses a seduction and manipulation to get what they want. But eventually, they perish, as the hero (or antihero) character in the story.The "femmes fatales" serve as a spice and more to eliciting the hero (or antihero) character into the trap and spin the whole situation into a destruction. …show more content…
Extreme camera angle, corrupt character and ambiguous storyline.

Extreme camera angle in Citizen Kane as shown in the post election scene, the camera is positioned in a very low angle to show the symbolic egotism of Kane. In this scene, everything is disproportional smaller and the ceiling is low. It is a very depressing claustrophobic scene and it serves well the theme of film noir.

Corrupt character in the Trial for example taken from the scene where the narrator tells "Before The Law", an allegory of a man who is searching the access to the law. This illustration also provides another elements of what film noirs compose, cynicism, frustration, bleakness, pessimism, and