Scarlet street Visual & Performing Arts Essay Paper

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Scarlet Street
Throughout Scarlet Street, Lang uses Chris’ paintings as a vehicle to comment on the action and story and predict the futures of the characters in the film. With this in mind, one scene from the movie that uses one of Chris’ paintings in a significant when Katherine ‘‘Kitty’’ March collaborates with her boyfriend Kitty to sell Chris’ paintings in pretence that Kitty is the owner of the paintings. The paintings attract the attention of an art critic who believes that the painting belongs to Kitty and terms them exceptional. This scene is significant because Lange uses it to depict an aspect of noir: - a genre of crime characterized by cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. In this case, Kitty and Johnny are entirely motivated by self-interest. Their agenda is to take advantage of Chris and swindle money from him, thus, explaining the aspect of cynicism.
Chris, on the other hand, uses his paintings to lure Kitty into loving him. In other words, the ...