According to Christopher McQuarrie, “Film noir feels no responsibility to reflect some sort of cinematic morality. Film noir just is. It doesn’t talk down to you, it doesn’t condescend to you, it says to you: this is the way the world is and this is the way and we’re not going to pretend that cinema has all the answers”. A wide range of films reflected the subsequent conflicts and insecurities of the time period. Fear, loss of innocence, paranoia, and despair are evident in noir, reflecting on the Cold War period when the danger of nuclear obliteration was apparent. According to Eddie Muller, “Films of the post WWII years were indicative of America’s loss of innocence. Screenwriters were determined to paint almost an anti-myth. Hollywood during/after