Tormented in foreshadowing suspense

Alda 2022-03-21 09:02:10

There are only two types of suspense in suspense dramas. One is to never reveal the identity of the criminal, so that the audience will always remain suspicious of who the criminal is and what will happen;

The other is to let the audience know the existence of danger in advance, so that the audience is always sweating for the characters in the film, watching the criminals carry out the crimes step by step and how the victims finally escape the disaster.

From falling on the floor, being locked in a garage full of smoke, to the climax on the train at the end, after realizing that his niece knew something about his true identity, Charlie secretly murdered her several times. Li was just unhappy because she found out the truth, unaware that she was in danger.

This is Hitchcock's purpose, he makes the audience become the insider before the protagonist, so that he is trapped in nervous anticipation, and the audience has to be "tortured" by suspense throughout the development of the plot.

As Hitchcock once famously said: Knowing where the bomb is, but not knowing when it will explode, is a more restless suspense.

Without a doubt, Hitchcock did it!

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  • Neva 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    Very Hitchcock, even if the heroine walked on the road in a suit in horror, she looked very charming, and in the end, the bad guy's uncle died a little too hastily.

  • Maynard 2022-03-24 09:02:11

    In a Hitchcock movie, there are a lot of jokes in this rare, like the regular dad always discussing how to kill each other with friends who like detective novels, the talkative nerdy daughter, the calculating young son, when The mother said that her brother was spoiled, and the camera immediately turned to her pouting little son, who wanted to die of laughter. As for the main line, it's quite boring. There are some empty scenes of the bustling American street scene in the movie. The visited family is also a typical example of the middle class in the small town. It belongs to Hitchcock's little satire of the American dream system. Widow Qian's serial killer, in the first half of the story, used some fragmentary clues to create his threat, but after the second half of the truth was revealed, the plot organization was very laborious. The male protagonist's performance of assassinating his niece was mentally retarded. In addition, the love with her daughter is inexplicable (but this makes the audience expect him to save the scene in the end, and the actual setting is Xi Fatt's little teasing to the audience), the daughter found out that the uncle she admired was the real murderer. , it stands to reason that the second half should be a tight-paced duel between uncle and nephew, but this expectation is obviously not satisfied.

Shadow of a Doubt quotes

  • Young Charlie: Your picking us as an average family kind of gave me a funny feeling.

    Jack Graham: What kind of a funny feeling?

    Young Charlie: Oh, I don't know. I guess I don't like to be an average girl in an average family.

    Jack Graham: Average families are the best. Look at me. I'm from an average family.

    Young Charlie: As average as ours?

    Jack Graham: Sure. Besides, I don't think you're average.

  • Young Charlie: Mothers don't lose daughters. Don't you remember? They gain sons.