Femme Fatale: Evil or not

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I'm rotten to the heart. I used you as you said. That's all you ever meant to me."(Dirks) Phyllis displayed the traditional traits femme fatales have up until this point. She is gorgeous, seductive, deceitful, manipulative, ineffective by emotions, and corrupted...
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She is gorgeous, seductive, deceitful, manipulative, ineffective by emotions, and corrupted. Despite the many convention femme fatale roles that are present in Double Indemnity, Phyllis shows a different side of her that is not the typical femme fatale character...
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