Blood Simple is the first movie directed by the Coen brothers. A more contemporary noir, with a knowing awareness of the origins of the genre, blood simple saw film noir get down and dirty again, and not just in the bedroom (Wood. 2014). The use of violence and crime in this neo noir film utterly correlates with the classic noir. Majority of the Coen brother’ films feature a crime that seldom goes right. Blood Simple features a jealous Saloon owner, Marty who hires a divorce detective, Visser to spy and kill his wife and her bartender lover named Ray. Visser doesn’t go ahead with the deal; instead he kills Marty and that set off a series of wrong assumptions and complex events, which leads to the death of almost all the people involved.
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Although Abby was untrustworthy at the beginning of the film, she still had a sense of innocence to her. She does not intend for anyone to die or get hurt, she also hasn’t manipulated anyone, even when she kills Visser at the end she thinks it’s her husband threatening her. She is just an unhappy housewife that is looking for love and trying to separate from her husband. She is completely unaware of most of the events; unlike most femme fatales in classic noir films. Abby is a bumbling, apparently untrustworthy woman at times oblivious to reality. For this though, we do occasionally feel sorry for her. Ray, clearly in over his head, easily manipulated and also slow to comprehend the realities of the situations presented (Carr. …show more content…
This behavior corresponds with femme fatales from other films like Phyllis in double indemnity and Kathie in Out of the past. This behavior begs the question of whether this makes them less of a femme fatale or more of a femme fatale, since they are using this to manipulate men. Abby, maybe not intentionally, uses her femininity to manipulate Ray into doing what she wants. Ray destroys all evidence of Visser killing Marty because he thinks it is Abby who committed the murder. He also, proceeded to bury Marty alive after discovering that he is actually alive in order to protect Abby. Some might say that in a way it’s like Abby is committing the
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Although Abby was untrustworthy at the beginning of the film, she still had a sense of innocence to her. She does not intend for anyone to die or get hurt, she also hasn’t manipulated anyone, even when she kills Visser at the end she thinks it’s her husband threatening her. She is just an unhappy housewife that is looking for love and trying to separate from her husband. She is completely unaware of most of the events; unlike most femme fatales in classic noir films. Abby is a bumbling, apparently untrustworthy woman at times oblivious to reality. For this though, we do occasionally feel sorry for her. Ray, clearly in over his head, easily manipulated and also slow to comprehend the realities of the situations presented (Carr. …show more content…
This behavior corresponds with femme fatales from other films like Phyllis in double indemnity and Kathie in Out of the past. This behavior begs the question of whether this makes them less of a femme fatale or more of a femme fatale, since they are using this to manipulate men. Abby, maybe not intentionally, uses her femininity to manipulate Ray into doing what she wants. Ray destroys all evidence of Visser killing Marty because he thinks it is Abby who committed the murder. He also, proceeded to bury Marty alive after discovering that he is actually alive in order to protect Abby. Some might say that in a way it’s like Abby is committing the