for the great director Hitchcock

Jacklyn 2022-03-22 09:02:01

"Hot Hand Destroys Flowers" pays tribute to the classics, and all the development of the story and the movement of characters are played under the careful arrangement of the director. At the beginning of the story, the police tracked Charlie, and Charlie tore up the newspaper, and there was already a suspense. As the story progresses, the girl has a crush on a mature man, Charlie gives her a ring, the girl finds the ring engraved with her name, and finds the newspaper that Charlie hid and so on. There is no thriller or wow, but every detail makes the audience feel cold. When Charlie is ready to do something to the girl, the arrangement of stairs and trains makes the audience worry about the girl's safety. The most classic fragment is a monologue of Charlie at the dinner table, with a distant vision, a faint unspeakable pain, a calm tone, but the words are full of sin. It seems to explain why he became the executioner. In the end, although the girl escaped, she did not point out that Charlie was the murderer, which was also the director's ingenuity. In this way, it fits the theme of the film's "Hot Hands Destroying Flowers"

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Extended Reading
  • Lesly 2022-04-22 07:01:32

    Impressionist style, which focuses on depicting the characters' emotions and psychological states through close-up shots (Kulishov effect); establishes metaphors (creates suspense) through editing and scene scheduling, and the combination of the two guides the audience to establish a sense of identity with the characters. Interestingly, the protagonist is usually wronged, and the protagonist of this film is finally proven guilty. The transfer of identity is completed by the collapse of the little Charlie idol (Little Charlie becomes the weaker party).

  • Darius 2022-03-22 09:02:01

    From Butterfly Dreams to Hot Hands Destroying Flowers, the change in narrative technique is very obvious in this film, and the tone of this film is closer to the current suspense films. There is no main line of murder and crime, all suspenseful plots are constructed from various potential lines, confirmed, reversed, and then confirmed, so the whole film is constructed and brewed on the basis of the overall tone. It is very depressing and a little dull. . The source of Park Chan-wook's Stoke is here.

Shadow of a Doubt quotes

  • Emma Newton: Wine for dinner - sounds so gay!

  • Uncle Charlie: Remember the time they had the champagne when the oldest Jones girl got married?

    Uncle Charlie: This is sparkling burgundy.

    Emma Newton: Well, one sip and I'll be calling it "sparkling burgledy." Maybe I'd better not take anything.