As a cinematic genre dating back to the mid 1930's, film noir is generally defined as a dark, suspenseful thriller with a plotline revolving around crime or mystery. Following World War II, film noir gained much recognition when Hollywood thrillers, such as The Maltese Falcon (1941) with H...

David De Souza Comm. 307 3/12/01 Unit Two films Now, Voyager In "Now, Voyager" Bette Davis plays Charlotte Vale, the spinster daughter of an domineering, high-society Boston matron. Charlotte is so completely under her mother's thumb that, in her first scene, we see her hiding cigarettes from her ...

The Matrix (1999) is an extension of the existentialist motifs of the mid 20th Century set in the 23rd, for its obvious influences from the American Noir Style. This is apparent when looking at the five points of this existentialism. First, Thomas A. Anderson (Keanu Reeves), a.k.a. "Neo," is por...