What does the movie black mean?

Film noir refers not to a genre, but to a special film style, which mainly belongs to detective films or crime films, and often pays attention to moral corruption.

Film noir in Europe and America started with the novel maltese falcon adapted by the famous detective novelist Deissler hammett, and film noir in East Asia started with the classic film Crazy Robbery starring Angie Chiu in 1979.

Generally speaking, film noir in the strict sense should be a black-and-white film produced by Hollywood, with the year of 1940-1958. Some people call a few European films or color films film noir. Movies with film noir style after 1960s are called New film noir.

Features:

1. There are many scenes in the dark, both inside and outside, which always give people a gloomy and terrible sense of future and crisis.

2. Adopt German expressionist photography style, and create the illusion of nightmare world with strange deep shadows and gloomy tones.

3. The hero is often a rebellious character with dual personality, full of hostility to the surrounding world, disappointed and lonely, and finally finds a home in death.

4. It is customary to use flashback or first-person narration as a means to describe psychology. Therefore, film noir can be said to be a combination of American violence theme, German expressionist photography style and French existentialism.