Film-noir and Neo-noir Visual & Performing Arts Movie Review

FILM-NOIR AND NEO-NOIR
Journal Entry:
The two movies that we watched are centered around passion and relationship and what it implicates about the human psyche. The themes are dark, lustered with those of deceit and murder. In the movie Fatal Attraction, the main character showed a different side to the stereotypical. It features Alex Forrest with the condition of borderline personality disorder. In the film, her impulsivity, emotional instability, and disorganized responses reflects the coping strategies she performed in her fear of abandonment. It shows a harsh reality of pain and suffering that a person can undergo, especially through trauma and abuse. The main character is on the spectrum of a psychopath, and the film uses this narrative to show the audience an interesting journey riddled with ideation that turns into desperate devaluation. It gives the audience a deeper understanding
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