Old movies have a magical power, and seeing those long-dead actors still alive is a kind of magic in itself. In the childhood of human society, sometimes people would get together in a circle and achieve a kind of group hallucination through dancing, singing and some neurological plants, which they called "communication with the gods". Just like when we watch movies now, in those two hours, we had no identity, no masks, and experienced another life through a screen, achieved a certain spiritual fit with the ancients, and completed the process of sacrifice. They call cinema a religion.
Hitchcock was clearly a master dream maker.
I've never been too fond of Hitchcock films. But this one really struck a chord with me. At night, I turned off the lights and looked at the window of the opposite building, guessing about other people's lives, just like watching a movie. The modern society gives people a lot of pressure in life, and people's spirits have become distorted. Like the heroine in "Black Swan", she is perfect, but she could have been more perfect.
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