What Defines Film Noir?

What Defines Film Noir? 

Film noir is in many ways a dark, gloomy, crime filled, good old fashioned black and white movie, but in my point of view film noir is more than just that. Film noir, in my opinion is a way of expressing the dark side in life. In most movies you see the happy side of life, everyone's always nice to each other and cares for each other, and in all reality that's not how life is. No matter what, there is evil people anywhere and everywhere you go, and that brings me to the point of what I think defines film noir. Film noir shows the dark side of life, it shows murder, corruption, crime, or anything that may show the dark side of people. Film noir shows a great deal of the other side of life, the one that most people do not want to involve themselves with, it shows that not everything is as happy and as perfect as it seems. That there is corruption and murder anywhere you can go, and that it can happen to you if you're not careful. Film noir is dark and cruel but it shows reality in my opinion, there have been dark and cruel people since the beginning of time and I believe that film noir has shown the realism in life, it shows the dark, gloomy, corrupted crime filled aspect of life. It has a great way of showing people how cruel life can be sometimes, and that everything is not as it seems.