"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it" (Matthew 7:13; Sermon on the Mount).
In film noir, the way of destruction is always broad, it is everywhere. It is often literally on whatever Broadway there is in a city, big or small. There are pitfalls everywhere, especially for the unwise and uninitiated, those who sleepwalk through life without awareness. When Christ comes into the world, He is wise beyond the world, and He is especially wise to the ways of the evil one, the accuser, the devil. He knows how the demonic oppresses human beings, and tempts with its distorted values -- and especially with its full emphasis only on the material, the life of mammon and the temptations therein to declare that one is perfectly satisfied, all desires fulfilled. Christ is wise to the ways of destruction, and the tricks meant to seduce us into it, precisely because He comes from outside the world. He's the opposite of naive; He's the One who can see what's what, when we are all too often so used to the mud in which we live, the darkness with which we're surrounded, we can't tell the difference. Or we're too blind to see it because we don't know anything else.
