Women of the mid-20th century are assumed to be the more polite of the two genders. Film noir brings a new light to the personality traits of women, allowing them to be more...expressive in their emotions. This new style of the 40s gives women the ability to project their attitudes and natural sass towards men who disrespect them. Before this, you would expect to see women being polite as well as men being polite to them with their common undertones of bigotry. Vera (Ann Savage) is shown getting drunk and acting obnoxiously towards Tom Neal, as Al Roberts. There is constant disagreement between the two, which also portray the film noir ideals, as explained in the readings.
In general, film noir is something I've always been interested in due to the outright cynicism and pessimism that is exemplified through plot and dialogue. The style caters a little more to my personality which certainly raised my interest in the film Detour.
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