Double Indemnity would usually have been a movie seen on the AMC channel that I would have immediately skipped over, but the more I allowed myself to watch it, the more I thoroughly enjoyed it. By the end I even almost understood the line of "Shut up, Baby" as something being incredibly smooth. I really liked the way it built up through out the movie, and in the beginning you question why you're watching it. You were quickly given all the information you needed without much character development, and it would have been all too easy to write off the movie entirely. I'm glad that I didn't. The ending threw me off a bit, but it wasn't expected. I love the idea of a femme fatal character as well. Such a change from the westerns, where women were just whores (i.e. Chihuahua).
This is another great movie, that I was surprised to enjoy so much.
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the only thing that threw me off was the whole "the ending was unexpected" part, I mean, you could see the bullet wound at the very first part of the movie, and it grew every time the camera returned.
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