Neo-Noir 90's

After reading the article by David Ansen and Tara Weingarten, I was reminded of the movie L.A. Confidential. In this movie we are reminded of all the elements that make film noir so intiguing. First we have this amazing city, Los Angeles, as a backdrop for the story. In this fair city the police department is reveered as the best in the country. Yet underneath all the glitz and glamour of the Hollywood scene we find all the elements of a corrupt police department, prostitution, drugs, political show boating, blackmail, and bribery. Another element of this movie genre is the femme fatale played by Kim Bassinger. She wants to be good and yet falls into the wrong crowd. As typical as it is she then falls for a good guy and he tries to save her from the bad guys. I think that these movies tend to draw us into them because of the dark nature of them. As a society we want to see the good, yet we all know that there is crime out there and no one is immune to it. However at the end of the day I believe that we really do like to see the good guys come out ahead. With this movie and so many others like it, we have been drawn into the mysterious under dealings of the crime world and the good guys who work so fervently to put the bad guys away. I think that movies like these take us back to a glamorous period of time and that is why we love them.