There is no real perfect crime

Jermaine 2022-04-19 09:01:42

I've been coveting Hitchcock's movies for a long time, and finally found a chance to watch it! It begins with the familiar Warner Bros.:

We knew from the beginning that it was the male protagonist who instigated the murder, and that the murderer was one of his college alumni with a criminal record. The male protagonist spent half an hour meticulously planning a murder case - killing his cheating wife, so thoughtful that I only understood his plan after reading this passage twice...

How harmonious the scene is when the male protagonist, the wife and the wife's cheating writer stay together. At this point they discuss the perfect murder, and the writer says:

This is simply a prophecy, indicating that the plan will never keep up with the changes. The male protagonist's murder operation failed, and the stupid college alumnus was stabbed to death by the female protagonist with a pair of scissors...

Then he was very calm when he collapsed, and quickly thought about the next countermeasures, and when the heroine went to take medicine, he quickly took out the key from the alumni's pocket and put it in the heroine's bag. Ah, here are the alumni's own keys! Later police detectives took advantage of this and set up a bureau for the male protagonist to get caught, and finally the truth came out. (I have to admire the writer, the speculation is exactly the same as what the male protagonist thought at the beginning)

Even though the killer was caught, I wasn't happy at all. A pair of cheating men and women returned him alive without any retribution, and even the original partner was put in prison (or hanged), and he was able to do it more openly! ! anger?

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Dial M for Murder quotes

  • Tony Wendice: What makes you think he came in by this door?

    Chief Insp. Hubbard: His shoes.

    Tony Wendice: His shoes?

    Chief Insp. Hubbard: The ground was soaking wet last night. If he'd come in by the garden, he'd have left mud all over the carpet. As it is, he didn't leave any marks at all, because he wiped his shoes on the front doormat.

    Tony Wendice: How can you tell?

    Chief Insp. Hubbard: It's a fairly new mat, and some of its fibers came off on his shoes.

    Tony Wendice: Oh, but surely...

    Chief Insp. Hubbard: And there was a small tar stain on the mat, and some of the fibers show that as well. There is no question about it.

  • Chief Insp. Hubbard: There is evidence however that he was blackmailing you.

    Tony Wendice: Blackmail?

    Mark Halliday: Yes, I'm afraid it's true, Tony.

    Chief Insp. Hubbard: And you suggest that he came in by the window. And we know that he came in by that door.

    Margot Mary Wendice: But he can't have come in that way. That door was locked. And there are only two keys. My husband had his with him, and mine was in my handbag. Here.

    Chief Insp. Hubbard: You could have let him in.