- manipulative
- insistent
- alluring
- dangerous
- powerful
Men (anti-hero) are usually seen as:
- easily manipulated
- led into a life of crime by the femme fatale
- easily persuaded
- eager to do anything for a woman
- usually naive
This is very typical in a film noir and the conventions for these are the typical key character types in many film noirs. In our film noir, we do not have an anti-hero character. However in typical film noirs, it seems that the anti-hero character could also be seen as the victim in the film. He usually gets manipulated by the woman, who has no intention of keeping her promises, therefore has some kind of an effect of a victim. In our film we have two victims. One: the young woman who dies in the present time, playing poker with the crazy woman, and the other one who is already dead, hung up on a line as her punishment.
Our femme fatale does have some typical conventions of a usual femme fatale though, as our femme fatale is quite dangerous and powerful, and she commits a crime and gets away with it.
