I kind of wish that the film noir genre still existed today outside of Batman movies. Was I counting down the days until The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson, came out? Absolutely I was. But do I wish that we had movies like Mildred Pierce coming out today? Again, absolutely. In the modern mind, noir mostly exists as a parody. There's the detective who talks funny, there's the gorgeous femme fatale he's in love with, there's some kind of murder. These elements are easy to parody and exaggerate, but in some ways, they diminish the reputation of noir films. When I watched Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman, I was genuinely terrified for her character's safety. Noir has a way of bringing intensity to a fever pitch without explicitly showing gratuitously graphic imagery, and I think many filmmakers can take a note from it. If you genuinely love detective movies or you enjoy talking in a funny detective voice, these noir memes will be a real hit with the dames.
