Neo-Noir VS Film Noir

Film Noir and Neo-Noir seem very much alike. They deal with the ambiguous protagonist, the detective and the femme fatale. In “The Dark Past Keeps Returning: Gender Themes in Neo-Noir” they tell the difference really good. They say, “Neo-noirs of the late twentieth century exist in a postmodern frame of mind. Most noir is modernist and tries to find truth and make sense of a warped world. In postmodernism, the world is too warped and incomprehensible, and our access to it is so flawed that we cannot make sense of it.” In Neo-Nor we see a change in gender rules. We used to see the man go to work and the woman stay home and take of the kids. In Neo-Nor we see the women take charge and make a living for there family while the men stay home and look after the kids. Neo-Noir deals with a lot of post-modernism. Post modernism is best described in “The Dark Past Keeps Returning: Gender Themes” as, “Postmodernism confuses and compresses space and time. In the postmodern era, satellites, cable TV, and the internet create a global village, in which we can instantaneously be anywhere or anytime.” There is no linearity in Neo-Noir. While Neo-Noir stays with the basic concept of Film Noir, it also makes a name for itself. It goes on its own timeline. Not everything happens in sequence like we see in Film Noir. One last thing that really changes in Neo-Noir is the femme fatale. She gets off scott free. No justice for what she has done. Instead a get out of jail free card to go and do it again.