A Dress for an Evil

    

     Devil in a Blue Dress movie is connected to the classic noir with the elements of femme fatale and ambiguous protagonist at the same time is updated with mix of races, informal language and sex without restrictions; therefore, can be considered as neo-noir style. Its protagonist, Ezekiel Rawlins is unemployment and desperately to find pay his mortgage and bills accepts a job from a man, De Witt Albright ,that he does not know. However, he trust on him because one of his closest friend recommends him to Albright. Easy's task is to look for a girl named Daphne Monet. Without information, besides of her name, The first step that Easy, Ezekiel, takes is to go a clandestine bar where only a African-America people are allow. Without information, besides of her name, he starts looking for Monet asking to his friends.  One of his acquaintance is Coretta that it looks that she knows more than Monet's name. All the time that they are in the bar Coretta flirts to Easy as a good neo noir's female. Easy together to his drunk friends leave the bar after midnight. He takes Coretta and her boyfriend to their home. After that he leaves his friend in the bed, he has sex with Coretta and is able to obtain information about Daphne. The next day Easy start looking for his prize, Monet, and finds out the Coretta is assassinated hours after he leaves her home. Everything looks that Easy kills Coretta. He continues his journey to find Monet and another crime is his way, Monet's brother. Again Easy is related to a crime that he does not commit. The whole story is develop is a racism environment and with a man that just is looking to pay his mortgage and bills.

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