Term Paper: Double Indemnity (1944) directed by Billy Wilder Modern society is undeniably obsessed with true-crime stories and murder mysteries. There is a prominent interest for the forces of so-called good and evil, attracting people to know about atrocities and massacres. Citizens, with the goal of obtaining a reasonable explanation of such events, question every aspect of a concrete crime or homicide, and try to find out the motive or the responsible’s background. All these doubts and uncertainties make one think: What would I do? Am I be able to do this? How does it feel? Can I get away with it? This legitimate cynicism is present not only in coffee-conversations, or through literature and theater, but notorious as well in the early
