Extended Reading
  • Brennon 2022-01-12 08:01:24

    The wrong man

    Bad luck fell, and Manny was accused of being a robber. Before the injustice was brought, his wife had a mental breakdown and was admitted to a mental hospital. How does Hitchcock express this misfortune in film?
    1 Fence---as an image of imprisonment
    2 Depression angle shooting---God’s

    first glance...

  • Einar 2022-01-12 08:01:24

    Atypical sermon by a devout believer

    "The Reunification" 1956

    Occasionally guest appearances in films directed by him are Hitchcock's little hobby. This habit has been with him for many years, and now it has become an interesting story of film history praised by fans.

    Hitchcock still showed his face in The Reunion directed in 1956, but...

  • Geraldine 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    The theme is called Redress of Injustice, and the injustice is more like a foil, and the mental stress brought by the case to the character is the key point. There are miserable grievances, a wife who has a mental breakdown, and a life of poverty that has been difficult to maintain. The sports shots of Henry Fonda contemplating against the wall in prison and the prayer shots before his injustice is solved are really impressive.

  • Lenny 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    7 points. At the beginning of the opening, Xi Fatt gave a back view, which caused me to watch the whole film carefully, but I couldn't find the fat figure. This true story, Henry Fonda is so wrong, even his wife was involved in the hospital for 2 years.

The Wrong Man quotes

  • Rose Balestrero: [to her husband, visiting her in the hospital] That's fine for you. You can go now.

  • Rose Balestrero: He even gave me a little lecture on evolution on the side. It seems the human race is growing smaller jaws and having fewer teeth. But the teeth are ahead of the jaws and so everybody has more teeth than they know what to do with. That's why I have four impacted wisdom teeth.

    Christopher Emmanuel 'Manny' Balestrero: You look just about perfect to me. If evolution can produce you, it's doing pretty good.