Body Heat (1981) (Directed by Lawrence Kasdan)

                The movie Body heat basically revolved on how the leading lady in the film played with the leading man he used the man to get what she wanted that is why that made her a femme-fatale. And that lead this film to be categorized as film noir.

Basically in film noir, it is the narrative and existential angst that drives a mostly male protagonist, who more often than not is the victim of a manipulative femme-fatale and that is what exactly happened in Body heat

Film noir films usually doesn’t give you a romantic happy ending and/or the satisfying restoration of law and order each and all of them together a system of techniques, conventions and not at least, audience expectations noirs first defined themselves by violating.
                   

Matty Walker as Kathleen Turner

     In this movie scenes were usually shot during night time it must be because of the mystery that comes with darkness. Night time somehow projects a feeling to the audience that he or she would not absorb in the daytime, just like how in horror movies play themselves upon the night. The film acts upon the conventions of mystery and suspense: it is easier for the filmmaker to play with the viewer's emotions if he or she is placed in a setting of uneasiness .This use of nighttime and darker images lends the movie to take advantage of the stylistic low-key lighting.

The editing of the film is continuous, and the story is told in linear time, without the flashbacks or voice-over narration. The movie does end with a self-consciously ironic twist when the Leading lady turns out to be a femme-fatale.


All in all it was a great film a film that would make you think and would hook you up because of the mystery and suspense that you’ll feel. It is worth the watch for people who want to know what Film noir because as my cinema professor said this film has all film noir cliches.