Modern society isn’t shaped by objectivity or open-handed honesty, but by social structures that have configured the truth to be whatever is most appealing at any given time. Not only were the characters conflicted, but they were often unsure of a world quickly losing its values and humanity, and this is a sentiment that has only gained more and more relevance in a society barreling towards post-truth. Heroes of the original noir movement were often wading against a tide of corruption and moral rot that reflected the moviegoing public’s general unease towards the larger world around them.īut while film noir (usually) positioned its characters against the tide, neo-noir (crime thrillers that switched out the blackened silhouettes of German Expressionism for the realist predilections of the French New Wave) began examining characters washed away by their own vices.
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Film noir began not as a deliberate movement, but as a series of expressionistic trends in the ‘40s and ‘50s, replacing the glossy veneer of 1920s idealism with a layer of dirt and grime that reflected a generation reeling from World War II.
Harsh shadows, cigar smoke, and a seedy private investigator are some of the usual telltale signs, but underscoring the aesthetic flourishes that the genre has become known for is an obsession with the nature of truth. When the idea of film noir is invoked in pop culture, there are a few images that immediately come to mind.
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