Research on Neo-noir films

Neo-noir (from the Greek neo, new; and the French noir, black) is a style often seen in modern motion pictures and other forms that prominently utilizes elements of film noir, but with updated themes, content, style, visual elements or media. Film critics could argue that the label ‘noir’ could legitimately be applied only to a specific cycle of post-World War Two Hollywood films. Using this label can create a new approach to low budget British films which would distinguish this film from others.

Film noire featured themes that are more negative than positive, with an overall dark and shadowy outlook by being filmed in black and white.The dark lighting symbolising evil while good is symbolised through light lighting. Interesting camera angles, shadowy lighting as well as extreme close-up's are all evident in noire films. The contemporary refashioning of noir themes is a manifestation of the flexibility and responsiveness to social change that have characterised noir from its inception and of the continued vitality of the form. The transformations of the genre in neo-noir have helped to clarify some of the constant, recognisable elements of 'the noir vision', most importantly the moral ambivalence of the protagonist and his (or in neo-noir often her) ill-fated relationship with a wider society that itself is guilty of corruption and criminality. This film also features elements of crime which also would give the idea of this genre being a big part of the film.

This genre of film noir were shot in black and white, and featured stories involving femmes fatales, doomed heroes/anti-heroes, and tough yet cynical detectives. The neo-noir sub-genre refers to crime dramas and mysteries produced from the mid-1960s to the present that, while they are generally shot in color and do not always emulate the visual style of classic film noir, often borrow the themes, archetypes, and plots made famous by the film noir genre.

It would be a dark an sinister approach to the film which sets the atmosphere of what is to come.

The conventions of neo noir films fits perfectly with the narrative of the film. It has all the elements of thrillers aswell as the symbolism which is used in the opening, and would have been in the rest of the film.