{"id":19979,"date":"2015-08-28T11:14:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T16:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/?p=19979"},"modified":"2015-08-28T11:14:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T16:14:20","slug":"film-noir-et-blanc-morality-at-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2015\/08\/film-noir-et-blanc-morality-at-the-movies.html","title":{"rendered":"Film Noir&#8230; et Blanc: Morality at the Movies:"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_19980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19980\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/149\/2015\/08\/double_indemnity2.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19980 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/149\/2015\/08\/double_indemnity2-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"double_indemnity2\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theimaginativeconservative.org\/2015\/08\/morality-at-the-movies-double-indemnity-and-chinatown.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">My article this week<\/a> at Imaginative Conservative is a discussion of morality in movies\u2013using two examples of <i>film noir\u00a0<\/i>to show how good and evil can be treated in filmic storytelling.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">The smart thing about\u00a0<em>film noir<\/em>\u00a0is that we identify with an ordinary good character who is drawn into evil. We are thrilled as we share his fear of being caught, and we dread the punishment with him. The intriguing part of\u00a0<em>Double Indemnity<\/em>\u00a0is that we see ourselves as ordinary people like Walter Neff, and as we plot and scheme along with him, we realize that we have within ourselves the same sort of deviousness and cunning that led a \u201cman next door\u201d into murder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">Although it deals with adultery, insurance fraud, and murder,\u00a0<em>Double Indemnity<\/em>\u00a0is a moral movie. As we go down into the dark with Walter Neff, we see that every other moral value suddenly slips and slides away until we are \u201cat the edge of the grimpen where there is no foothold.\u201d Like Raskolnikov in Dostoevsky\u2019s\u00a0<em><a style=\"color: #a12900;\" href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/theimaginativeconservative-20\/detail\/0486415872\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Crime and Punishment<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Neff is sucked into the moral morass as fast as a worm down a hole, until destruction is his only end.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theimaginativeconservative.org\/2015\/08\/morality-at-the-movies-double-indemnity-and-chinatown.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> to read the full article.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My article this week at Imaginative Conservative is a discussion of morality in movies\u2013using two examples of film noir\u00a0to show how good and evil can be treated in filmic storytelling. The smart thing about\u00a0film noir\u00a0is that we identify with an ordinary good character who is drawn into evil. We are thrilled as we share his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":19980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Film Noir... et Blanc: Morality at the Movies:<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"My article this week at Imaginative Conservative is a discussion of morality in movies--using two examples of film noir\u00a0to show how good and evil can be\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2015\/08\/film-noir-et-blanc-morality-at-the-movies.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Film Noir... et Blanc: Morality at the Movies:\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My article this week at Imaginative Conservative is a discussion of morality in movies--using two examples of film noir\u00a0to show how good and evil can be\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2015\/08\/film-noir-et-blanc-morality-at-the-movies.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Fr. 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