The movie Touch of Evil was about corruption in the Mexican safety and protection department. Mike and Susan Vargas had just gotten married and were in Mexico when they witnessed a murder. Vargas offers to over see the investigation while his wife gets transported to a hotel a while a way. In the end there is a murder that one of the police men try to from Vargases wife for and Vargas gets the cop to admit it on tape.
This movie was slightly hard for me to follow and i did not enjoy it as much as the other Film Noir movies we watched. I don't think each character was developed enough for me to be able to tell them apart once they were all together. The scenes were somewhat chaotic for me to distinguish. However, the final scene with Vargas. and Quinlan did pull the whole movie together. The intense dialogue pulled the theme of the entire movie together.
The use of low camera angles accented Orson Wells. Showing him at this angle made him look bigger then life and in this movie he played a character that pretty much could not be touched. No matter what he did, how corrupt nothing would effect him. In addition this most of the movie was filmed rather dark The most important scenes were filmed at night, and the most important characters often had shadows cast on their faces. At first i found this really annoying however i realized it only enhanced the feel of the movie. The background of the whole movie was dark , police corruption is not an easy or light topic, and keeping the feel of the movie dark played on my emotions and i think it was a good choice and a successful decision
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