Double Indemnity

The music in Double Indemnity mirrors a lot of the elements of the Classic Hollywood Film Score. As a Film Noir, the movie features orchestral music without words and an overall musical theme that is played throughout the film, especially when the narrator is speaking. The majority of the film's music is underscoring, except a small bit of source music coming from a radio at the very end of the film. The film also uses sequences, most notably when Walter Neff is approaching the elevator after being shot. One of the things that stood out to me was the use of loud uplifting music at the end of the film. This is ironic because the ending of the film is dark and troubling, not exactly the happy ending that the music implies.