... is a motif that is shown several times relating the burdens that are carried to being in prison. The lighting and music is linked very closely - at the beginning of "Double Indemnity" there is a scene where it is all white and the music is vivacious and pleasant, signifying purity and freedom, there are no enclosed spaces and it is fine weather. Yet again the shadows that are cast alert the audience that there is a burden, the shadow cast upon the face in the opening scene of Billy Wilder's film where the male protagonist, Walter Neff, is in real time there is a encumbrance and he is troubled. There is evidence also of this in "On the Waterfront" where Terry has been called out into the dark alley where the lighting warns the spectators that something grave is about to happen. The temperature of the place is related ...

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