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Phyllis Dietrichson's Double Indemnity As The Film

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This is my second time watching Double Indemnity and something that I noticed this time around was the change in the color of Phyllis Dietrichson’s outfits as the movie progressed. The book mentions that the femme fatale is typically shown in white (149), which when we first spot Phyllis Dietrichson she’s wrapped in the white towel and then the white dress. However, as the movie progresses her outfits seem to only get darker; for example when Phyllis purposes the idea of taking out the insurance in her husband’s name she is seen in a white shirt with dark flowers on it (19:11) and then once they obtain the signature she’s wearing a dark colored dress (33:01). I originally thought this was an intentional move by Billy Wilder’s to juxtapose
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