90210

      Beverly Hills is well known to have fine real estate, swanky stores and fabulous people. The narrator even spills a few celebrities names here and there as if there was some association.
     She even noted that when she was driving towards Beverly Hills that the roads were like "butter". It was smooth and more cared for. The people are stereotyped to be snotty and rich. I'm sure Los Angeles' reputation isn't the kindest. They aren't known for being the humblest of people. This story just adds to that speculation. They don't have to work much because of their fortune, so their hobbies are gossiping, and doing it well. Although with such fortune comes a price with the overwhelming amount of robberies and crimes.
  

Film noir and neo noir have the obvious differences. With Neo meaning "new" in French, I guess neo noir could be film noir's baby? It's a little more up to date and interests a newer generation. It's in color, updated style, themes are more exciting..etc. First in Midnight in Silicon Alley, we are brought to places like Arcadia and San Gabriel which has a large population of the Asian community. So you can sort of picture the Chinese mob capturing Chen. Especially in those areas, it sort of can be seen as noir like, with the descriptions of the brothels and such. It's quite unappealing. They are first in socal, but then it redirects us to Silicon Valley, where i think is part of Norcal? but it makes the narrative interesting because we have these images in our heads of the specific places. It's an advantage for us because we live in the Los Angeles area, but what about other readers who are not familiar with the area. it probably wouldn't be as visual. Even the name with Valley changed to "Silicon Alley". Alleys are usually dark small spaces, where a lot of crimes happen. I think i just talked about two different topics...

Ruthless

I found a review for the Double Indemnity film that caught my eye. The site is named "Ruthlessreviews.com", harsh criticism is some what amusing. With that site title i was expecting a more harsh criticized review, but was shocked. The review by Matt Cale seems like a dream for the director, Billy Wilder. Matt claims for The Double Indemnity to be "The ultimate and best Film Noir and deserves a Nobel Prize". I was hoping for at least some criticism with how some of the scenes went and the flaws.

It's most likely because this is the first old film that i have seen and the styles and acting in unfamiliar to me. It seems over acted.

Walters wedding ring definitely distracting, i noticed it throughout the film multiple time and i caught myself staring at it more than him. Also, it look as if Phyllis is wearing a wig? i'm not too sure but it's pretty unrealistic.

Just some of my opinions, but i feel as if i am too used to how movies are now, that i don't grasp the quality of how they were back then.