“Hit Man” suggests that when backing away from misogyny, men, too, have more options, more happiness and more love.
“Double Indemnity” turned the trope into an indelible archetype for the morally ambiguous world of film noir.
Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray and Tom Powers are pictured in Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity."
The patriarchal world of “Double Indemnity” is as bleakly loveless for men as it is for women.
“Hit Man,” and other contemporary noir films, in contrast, are trying to imagine a way out of the “Double Indemnity” double bind.
Persons:
Noah Berlatsky, CNN —, ” Phyllis Dietrichson, Barbara Stanwyck, Billy Wilder’s, Wilder, Stanwyck, Phyllis, Noah Berlatsky Noah Berlatsky, Richard Linklater’s “, ”, Women’s, Circe, Walter, Fred MacMurray, Tom Powers, Billy Wilder's, Everett, Walter staggers, Keyes, Edward G, Robinson, “, fatales, John McNaughton’s, there’s, —, Justine Triet’s “, William Oldroyd’s “ Eileen, femme, Eileen, Sandra Hüller, Sandra, Justine Triet's, Maddy Masters, Adria Arjona, she’s, She’s, Maddy, Gary Johnson, Glen Powell, moonlighting, Ron, Gary, Maddy isn’t, Gary doesn’t, Linklater, bleakly loveless
Organizations:
CNN, Everett, Gary
Locations:
Chicago, today’s Hollywood