Double Indemnity

This movie was one of the most interesting that we have watched so far this semester. There were many different things that made this movie different from others that we have seen. The first difference that I observed was the fact that this movie was narrated. None of the other films were done this way, so this film was unique. Walter came in at the beginning of the movie as an unknown character and started telling his story. During breaks in the movie, it goes to shots of Walter talking into the recorder to tell his side of the story. It was interesting to see how the movie and narrative transitioned into one another.
To go along with the narrative point, the movie was an entire flashback. Walter the main character came into the office and went into Keys' office and started a recording. In this recording, Walter admits to the murders of Mr. Didrikson and Phyllis. He also tells his side of the entire story, so nobody else, mainly Nino. This was the first time that I had seen an entire movie as being a flashback. I had seen short scenes in a movie that were flashbacks, but not the entire or majority of the film.
Another thing that I noticed was the equipment that Walter used when recording. From the looks of it it was a wax cylinder. This is interesting because it shows how old the film was, because wax was used before records were made and recorded on. I might be wrong about this, but they looked like wax cylinders.
When Walter got to the scene where he and Phyllis killed Mr. Didrikson, is where the film got interesting. This film followed the code because it did not show Walter killing Mr. Didrikson, it went to Phyllis' face and you could only hear Walter killing the man. I found it very odd that Phyllis was smiling or smirking when Mr. Didrikson was being killed, it showed how heartless she was. This was also the point where I knew that Walter was in over his head and that he was probably going to be gotten rid of too. Whoever played Phyllis did a really good job, because I really never got the sense that she was a good person or not up to something.
As the film went on, I noticed how Phyllis wardrobe changed. In the beginning of the film she wore a white gown, but as her plans started to develop to kill Mr. Didrikson her wardrobe gained more black and lost the white. I think that this was done to represent her as being evil or that she was not pure. What got me was at the end when she was wearing her white gown again, I thought that that was strange. The only explanation that I could come up with was that she was trying to recreate her first encounter with Walter.
Overall, I thought that this film was pretty good. I liked the fact that it was different from the other films that we have watched so far.