In every sense of the word a noir film is a film of death." (Borde and Chaumeton, 1955 p19) Dramatic camera angles, stark and angular sets, rain lashed streets, fog bound runways, sharp contrast lighting and empty public buildings all contribute to illustrate to the viewer the dark world of film noir...
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This world consists of tales filled with cops, crooks and private detectives. Frothy romanticism is replaced by blind passion and sexual obsession, where women are predators and violence and cold-blooded murder are commonplace. The sun rarely shines in film noir. The gloomy air is prevalent with foreboding, anxiety and inevitability of death...
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Final Also, the family relations are not normal. They are based on the absence of the family, or often represented as broken up, whereas before the family "served as social stability", they are often concerned with loss of family values and the satisfactions it can lead to...	2 / 497
film noir Several later films noirs, such as Night and the City (1950) and Panic in the Streets (1950), adopted a neorealist approach of using on-location photography with non-professional extras...	3 / 693
Chinatown As the audience, we never discovered the whole truth until the end of the film. A private detective was used to create a sense of deception and treachery...	2 / 377
"Chinatown" as film noir Also, the first things the audience sees when the film begins are dark, black and white photographs. They take up the entire screen, so for the first minute or so of the film, the audience does not realize that they are, in fact, photographs that detectives are examining...	4 / 849