Extended Reading
  • Leonard 2022-05-01 06:01:04

    A rare metaphysical Hitchcock

    Hitchcock’s labels are mostly suspense, horror, tension, excitement, good-looking, or constantly showing new film techniques, while the suspense of this film is still there, but it shows another side of its rare.
    This film is one of the few suspenseful films of Hitchcock that point to serious...

  • Rubye 2022-05-01 06:01:04

    I confess-applaud the jury system

    In addition to giving the audience a clear answer, Hitchcock's I confess filmed in 1953 simply showed the Simpson case. As Linda summed up in "The Third Eye: Looking at America": The characteristic of the jury system is that "it is better to misplace 100, not to wrong one person."
     
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  • Hester 2022-05-01 06:01:04

    ① The young priest cleans up the story of suspected murder for himself while insisting that he does not violate the clergy standards. The biggest feature of the film is that it tells the audience about the case from the beginning, and the injustice suffered by the characters is not clarified until the last minute. ②Hitchcock appears at the beginning of the film, a passerby walking on the stairs, although The camera is a little far away, and it’s not very clear, but look at that figure, will there be anyone else? The priest needs to perform his duties, the law is not ethical, and the conflict between religious beliefs and judicial justice has been hanging the hearts of the audience. ④The Germans in the early films Has always played a negative role in China ⑤ Hitchcock received strict education from the Church of Jesus in his early years, and probably has long been thinking about the priest’s entangled mentality about any secrets he heard in the confession.

  • Brenna 2022-05-01 06:01:04

    The court play is a little deliberate, but the first half of the presentation is extremely bold, and the image style is quite expressionistic. What's more clever is that the priest and the murderer are essentially one. When the motives and behaviors of the two are combined, you will find In a sense, the two are the extreme differentiation of individual individuals.

I Confess quotes

  • Fr. Michael William Logan: Who's there?

  • Otto Keller: I must confess to you. I must tell someone. I want to make a confession.