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![NIGHTMARE ALLEY [1947]](/_cache/Film-Noir/img/Nightmare_Alley_0.jpg)
What are the themes that make Nightmare Alley a Film Noir?
A film-noir consists of the elements of murder solving, detectives, dark mystery, lead male picking up chicks, firearms, car-chasing.
Now, ask yourself this, does Nightmare Alley has one or more of those elements?
Trailer for the fantastic Noir thriller Nightmare Alley. Starring Tyrone Power and directed by Edmund Goulding.
It's been haunting me for quite some time now
naw, im used to being violated :p
I am in a street, there's an alleyway, there’s old woman standing in alley way, more evil than any other person in any of the dreams. No one walks near the alleyway, everyone is afraid of her, I can’t see her face. The street is busy but everyone is scared, no one goes near her. She's very very evil. I have a knife and I want to kill her, as I walk into the alley the nightmare ends. I'm really really angry, and I want kill her. I'm very afraid but still want to kill her. Can someone attempt to tell me what this is about? Is this someone from my past who I hate?
The woman may represent an authority figure who has significance influence over many people in your sub-culture.
You would like to personally confront this metaphorical creature, but cannot even fathom the process in your dreams.
I suggest that you continue to ruminate on your role in vanquishing this figure, and decide to cajole others to join you in this fight, rather than attempting it on your own.
I am in a street, there's an alleyway, there’s old woman standing in alley way, more evil than any other person in any of the dreams. No one walks near the alleyway, everyone is afraid of her, I can’t see her face. The street is busy but everyone is scared, no one goes near her. She's very very evil. I have a knife and I want to kill her, as I walk into the alley the nightmare ends. I'm really really angry, and I want kill her. I'm very afraid but still want to kill her. Can someone attempt to tell me what this is about? Is this someone from my past who I hate?
Don't worry. The killing is symbolic. Who or what do you wish to kill? Did you do something you think is terribly evil when you were younger? So evil that no one else can ever go there? So evil no one else will talk about it?
Is the faceless person you? She is old because what happened is way in the past, old and almost forgotten--was something done to you, rather than something you did? Are you trying to cut something you perceive as evil out of yourself?
Everyone is afraid but you are not afraid. You know what it is so you don't really have any fear of it.
But you are angry and you want whatever it is "killed." Cut out. The old woman could also represent something said to you that you are finding more resentful of as you grow older. Someone in your family, perhaps tolde you something about yourself that is disgusting to you.
These are surmises based on the little information you provide. With more information a whole other picture could develop that changes everything.
The alley: a place where decent people don't usually go. Someplace hidden. A back alley. A place where unmentionable things happen. A dark, unlighted place that sees no sunlight. A place where evil might easily lurk.
Every person, or so the theory goes, has a Jeeckel and hyde potential, the potential for good or evil.
Sometimes people go to extreme lengths to deny their vulnerablity or possibilty for evil, such as literally cutting off a hand (that offends them) or cutting out an eye-In which case usually religious fundamentalism may be a root cause.
Keep working on it. But by all means don't fall into the trap of thinking you are evil or destined for it. You have been thinking much about something
and it holds the clue to what you are trying to work out in your dreams. Write all your dreams down and do it immediatly after you wake up. What you related is very interesting and I hope this will help you.
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