Review Of The Film Touch Of Evil As It Relates To Communism And The Cold War
Submitted by Suze48 on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Review Of The Film Touch Of Evil As It Relates To Communism And The Cold War
The ending of the Second World War sparked a workforce that was clouded with women. Eventually, this evolved into more and more women becoming increasingly more independent and more women seeking a larger share of the post-war economy which was booming. Most of the time, film noir portrays the ideas and thoughts of the post-war, or Cold War, era. Film noir has played a large role in influencing popular culture. Touch of Evil is an excellent example of a film noir, with its dingy bars, dirty streets and hotels, and sleazy bars. Americans stayed fearful of the Soviet Union, that any day they could launch a nuclear bomb and destroy life as they knew it. Americans were always building bomb shelters and storing food, just in case of an attack from the Soviets.
Throughout the movie, Susan Vargas is left mostly on her own, and is continuously followed by a man who is the brother of a man who her husband has put in jail. He is seeking revenge on Mike Vargas, and using Susan to get to him. However, Vargas is completely unaware of the fact that Susan is being followed and that her life could very well be in jeopardy. Oddly enough, even Susan appears to be unaware of her iminate danger. Her husband is so busy working with Hank Quinlan trying to solve the case that becomes a the main story line in the beginning of the film. (A wealthy American and his stripper girlfriend are murdered when their car blows up immediately after crossing over the Mexican/American border into Mexico).
Mike Vargas has become so involved in solving this case, that he is unaware of the fact that his new wife is beginning to learn how to survive without him. This becomes more and more dangerous for Susan when, at the end of the film, she is injected with drugs in order to taint Vargas' name. Susan's independence shows through when she is taken by one of the Grandi men to a hotel to meet with the brother of the Grandi that is in jail. She stands up to them during the scene, and the...
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