Marriage For A Femme Fatale Analysis
Marriage for a Femme Fatale is not a promise of love, romance and connection but rather one of unhappiness and darkness. In this film the family home is just a location to which displeasure thrives, and where Mr. Dietrichson hardly notices his wife both mentally and physically. In many noir films marriage life is almost sadistic, in Double indemnity it is clear that marriage and sexuality contrast each other, and that death and pleasure are the same thing. Another aspect of femme Fatale marriages in film noir is the nonexistence of children. In some circumstances the husband of the femme fatale is much older meaning that he may have an older child from his previous marriage, for example Mr.Dietrichson has a daughter Lola (Jean Heather). Phyllis