film noir: a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters
abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
jerusalem thorn: large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States