Film Noir

Film Noir's are always interesting because it can be linked with many other genre's. These suspenseful gritty dark films that include witty cynical attitudes. They are usually crime-drama's and are often shot in mysterious looking places. In The Hitch-Hiker Meyer's is the bad guys who holds two men, Collins and Bowdin hostage on a road trip in Mexico. In this film we see the very cynical attitude of the bad guy, Meyers and how he drags the two men on his runaway journey. The director does a great job with lighting which really adds that film noir touch. Meyer's has one lazy eye that stays open while he sleeps, not giving Collins and Bowdin a chance to run a way because they never know when he's sleeping. Along with his attitude, this makes Meyer's scary. His whole persona is that he isn't the one to be toyed with and that at any chance he will kill you. Thats what Bowdin and Collins feared all along while wanting to get back home and out of his captivity. The lighting makes the whole film look gloomy, and like there isn't a way out. Ultimately in my opinion the movie never got boring, it sticked with the plot and kept finding different ways to twist the outcome.