Noir Archetypes

"As I slowly peeled away the jacket, the seductive image of a woman in a blood-red dress stood before me.""Roger Ebert calls film noir “the most American film genre, because no society could have created a world so filled with doom, fate, fear, and betrayal, unless it were essentially naive and optimistic.”The film noir world is one of sharp-edged shadows, strange angles, and lonely settings."