Film Noir Narrative
Her...the goddess, the perfect woman fallen into my desolate world or corruption. She belongs where mortals cannot harm her. I can feel her presence..................................
The vision of her beauty enslaves my heart urging me to break free and take her away from all her pain and suffering. Her vision ignites my body aching to touch her. It pains me to think of her soul not at peace. The power of fer takes hold and throttles any morals you once had. Revenge sweeps through your veins and your heart beats like a war drum craving violence.
As research for my narrative I investigated literary techniques used in film noir script writing. These films are characterised as reflecting a dark, morose tone containing more pessimistic characters than in other forms of cinema. The premises typically in film noir shapes round the corrupt lives of the male characters of which they have 'no control' over, highlighting an atmosphere of 'impending doom'. The relationship of love commonly expressed in film is replaced by 'blind passion and sexual obsession, which often erupts into violence and cold-blooded murder'. These stories are centered round crime and reflect 'the other side of the American Dream in which death has been preceded not by success but by grim failure'. Typically the text is presented with a narrating voice-over 'sometimes used to express bleak resignation' 'concerned with emotions, human failings and sexual obsession'. The characters typically have no clear distinction between right and wrong, yet are left ambiguous showing morality but 'can do so against the law'. I have used these techniques to produce somewhat of a soliloquy expressing his pain at his lovers death-his failing....his 'sexual obsession' through text describing his lust for her, finishing the narrative with his need to go against the law and seek vengeance.
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