Double indemnity novel6/12/2023 ![]() Phyllis on the other hand, is not a human being. Lola is his family, his flesh and blood, and he wants to make sure she will be well provided for. The sad truth is that he couldn’t care less what happens to Phyllis after he dies. ![]() ![]() It is clear she has no true affection for her husband, especially when she begins to plot his murder in the hope of getting his insurance money. She is a beautiful and alluring woman, barely older than Lola, her husband’s daughter from a previous marriage. ![]() There is no doubt in Double Indemnity, that Phyllis Dietrichson, the dissatisfied wife of a wealthy older man is being sexually objectified both by the imagery of the film and by her position in relation to the other characters. The highly Freudian approach described by Laura Mulvey is not necessarily obvious or relevant in every film and genre, but it is very helpful in understanding Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity, which vividly illustrates some of the points made by both Laura Mulvey and Molly Haskell. ![]() A very similar approach is taken by Molly Haskell in her review of Hitchcock’s Vertigo. In her article “Visual Pleasure and the Narrative Cinema”, Laura Mulvey describes a way of analyzing and understanding cinema from a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective. ![]()
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