Billy Wilder's films

Sir Wilfrid is recovering from a heart attack and is anxious to get back to work. He is saddled with a nurse who is supposed to see to it that he maintains a proper schedule and does not work too hard, and, perhaps because he is so intent on working anyway and on outwitting her, he allows himself to be drawn into a case with a number of peculiar features and is fooled by his client and the client's wife. In any case, he performs magnificently in court and "proves" that his client is innocent, but, once he has done so, the wife reveals to Sir Wilfrid that the husband is not innocent at all and that she has made him appear innocent by portraying a witness who

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g sexual tension, the lure of gold, and an identification of her as belonging to someone else. One of the repeated themes in film noir is obsession--Walter Neff becomes obsessed with Phyllis, just as Phyllis is obsessed with money and leisure and in fact herself. Neff is identified by critics as a man whose behavior can be classified as classically existential in the film noir universe: Because he understands from the beginning that he need not have chosen as he metaphorically puts it, to get on a "streetcar that only goes one way." Because he is subsequently enmeshed by the undesired aftereffects of his choice, Neff . . . never escapes from his dark corner. Still as he sits in his darkened office at the film's conclusion dictating his personal narrative, Neff may begin to perceive that his choice was not so free as it seemed (Silver and Ward 4). One of the reasons it is not so free is the obsession which comes over him when he first sees Phyllis Dietrich--his is a sexual obsession, and he himself states this: "I never cared about the money. All I wanted was you." For her part, Phyllis never cared about anything but the money, and she uses Neff in order to get what she wants. Phyllis has to be the center of male attent
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