"Beyond the Whirlpool" this movie was born in 1947, the director is the Frenchman Jacques Turner, he has made many movies in his life, but if you want to say the most successful one, it must be this "Beyond the Whirlpool", which is a story about the typical snake and scorpion ice beauty, of course, there are many entanglements, love, betrayal and other things entangled in it, is a very tangled, very sad film work.
The great thing about "Beyond the Vortex" is that the story actually tells two completely separate central events together, and let's start with the first story: Jeff elopes with Cathy, the woman of the gang boss Wise, which is a love story. The second story is the murder in San Francisco, which was also a very common film element of that period, and can be made into a suspense movie.
And the screenwriter James Kane boldly put the two together, so that the plot becomes very ups and downs, so that the protagonist faces the same problems to choose again, in this iteration, the character characteristics of the characters are emphasized again and again, and finally let the audience have a deep character cognition in their hearts.
The first half of the story about the elopement of the lover is very romantic and intoxicating, and the murder in the second half, although relatively simple in structure, is gripping and exquisitely laid out, and the final ending once again pulls these dramatic plots back to the theme of the most primitive characters.
Cathy is the heroine of this film, and the director's portrayal of her is undoubtedly very successful, a leader in film noir, and Casey is a full-bodied, radiant female character in the film. In previous film noirs, the heroine would appear very sexy and charming at first, and then quickly reveal her true side and reveal her bad heart.
It is generally difficult to get the sympathy of the audience for the role of the snake and scorpion beauty, but Cathy did it, she was different as soon as she appeared, she actually shot and murdered the gang boss, and she was also domineering and fired four shots in a row, which shows that this woman also has a very independent and strong side.
Casey's first appearance in the bar was also very convincing, and it was extraordinary to make Jeff, a man who didn't smile all the time, fall in love with at first sight. What's more, until she shoots and kills, her relationship with Jeff is sincere, passionate, and desirable, which is the root cause of the audience's confusion as Jeff.
Betrayal, which can be said to be the theme of this movie, all betrayals begin with Cathy, this woman betrays White and Jeff, in the process, Jeff also betrays White, and finally Anna suspects that Jeff betrayed herself, the plot here is tightly linked, and everyone's fate is involved. The betrayer will die, the betrayed will still live alone, and the color of fate and tragedy that film noir pays attention to is well reflected in this movie.