It might seem biased to define Tony as a sexually minded criminal, but in the movie where sexy women are catalysts for men's crime, the movie has been tried and tested, and male audiences have also enjoyed it, but Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity" , the relationship between the male and female protagonists suddenly becomes murky. At first, they do plan a perfect murder for the sake of lust, but halfway through the story, the sexual temptation degenerates into a nameless glue. They met secretly in shopping malls, communicated quietly on the phone, secretly communicated in apartments, talking, debating, complaining, and threatening. The focus was not "I love you", but the after-thought of "perfect crime". did not appear in the murder case.
Walter, an insurance salesman for Pacific Rim, was 34 years old, single, and had no habit. His only friend seemed to be Patton, a sharp-eyed and seasoned claims investigator from the opposite office, who was more than a decade older than Walter. , Addicted to smoking cigars but often forget to bring matches. During a routine door-to-door visit to sell car renewals, Walter meets the heroine Phyllis, who is wrapped in a towel and looks down on Walter from a high place, and the two exchange fiery teasing signals. After changing, Phyllis walked down the stairs, tying the last few buttons on his chest as he walked, while Walter sat on the armrest of the sofa, and returned Phyllis's deliberate frivolity with his usual casual return. At this point in the story, everything is heading towards the cheating scene. Unexpectedly, when the two met for the second time, Walter sniffed out that Phyllis was trying to kill her husband and defraud her. , jump first.
There is no need to repeat the story in the future. We know that they carried out the perfect murder case, and their vigilance has also grown. Both see themselves as passive participants, and see each other as the culprit of active planning. No one is responsible for the dead. Anyone can. Get out of your body before the catastrophe comes ("I am not to blame for the blood of this righteous man"). They're not the "Bonnie and Clyde" type where "sudden atrocities turn ordinary people into legends", they seem to kill for love, but not enough, the most common problem is: they do Have you ever been in love? If so, how many times?
Of course, the 1944 Hayes Code has not yet been closed, and the only hint from Billy Wilder seems to come from the scene where Phyllis goes to Walter's apartment, where the two sit on the sofa, Walter says he can construct the perfect crime, and then it's Phyllis who switches. Lis got up and put on his coat to go home, Walter smoked as the occasion, the sofa was a little messy, that's all. This can't help but remind people of the scene in "Casablanca" where Bergman went to Bogart's room to explain the whole story, and the two turned off the lights and dark scenes after clearing up their suspicions. Great movies can often scratch the audience's itch. Here comes the problem, we all know that in the subsequent story, Walt takes an almost frigid attitude towards Phyllis, "baby...baby...baby" is not Justin Bieber's love nickname, so, Walter's motive for killing bounced back from Phyllis to his own heart. When life is monotonous and boring like the data in an insurance contract, maybe everyone wants some kind of change, some kind of relief, which can refresh work experience and get rid of it. In the dull life, what could be more exciting than challenging the taboos of life - killing and cheating? What's more, how many times in a lifetime can a man who knows all the details of the industry try to find a loophole in the industry (if not, create one)?
On the other hand, does Phyllis love Walter? At the end of the film, Phyllis shoots Walter in the left shoulder, Walter
: Why don't you fire another shot, baby? Don't tell me you've always loved me.
Phil: No, I never loved you...I've been using you...but I never thought I'd fall in love with someone until just now, when I found out I couldn't get a second shot.
Phyllis's stepdaughter once told Walter that her seriously ill mother was murdered by Phyllis, who was a nurse, and now her stepmother is seducing her boyfriend Nino. Of course, it doesn’t matter whether these plots are true or not. Recalling that when the hero and heroine committed crimes, Phyllis was quite impatient with Walter’s perseverance, and we can tell that she is a woman who doesn’t want to be manipulated. Start, end together, everyone has to be thorough, you have to remember." In other words, in terms of insight into people's hearts, Walter lost in overconfidence.
"Double Insurance" tells us a dark story disguised as a erotic crime in flashbacks, accompanied by the protagonist's voice-over, but in essence it tortures those crazy thoughts that flash by in human nature-for example, about perfection The desire to sin - real and fleeting. In the film, Barton, who has some eye-catching words, is like Dr. House. He exposes the lies of the guarantor one by one, but he is clueless in front of the friendship, "I have been in a relationship with Walter for 11 years, and I guarantee that he is not a suspect by personality. ." At a touching moment, a man who has been single for a longer time has long been accustomed to revealing his valued friendship in front of others. Think about this ending. Although I had already guessed the change of match recipients due to smoking too much, he lit the first and last cigarette for him when he said "I love you too". A cigarette, and the movie ends. Billy Wilder alone is enough to make the younger generation sigh.
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