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Mrswu's avatar

Spot-on! I do better on second viewings, as well as second readings. Once I can trust the plot not to disappoint me, I can enjoy the scenery along the way.😉

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Adrian Gaty's avatar

Andrew Klavan has a new book out, Kingdom of Cain, in which he writes quite a bit about the moral heart of Hitchcock’s work. I agree with you, he remains very underrated!

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Anthony Esolen's avatar

Yes, and I think people are coming round to seeing it. Hitchcock was a Catholic, and fairly serious about his faith (which doesn't mean he was any saint, either). It's the moral conundrum that's at the heart of so many of his films: as for instance the terrible use by the "good" guys of Eva Marie Saint as a counterspy in North by Northwest, or the silence of the priest in I Confess when nobody is going to understand him and he knows it, or the Nietzschean philosophy that doubles back with a vengeance on the professor in Rope ..

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Tom Stetz's avatar

There are some that admire the movies he did in England, in black and white, and the people all talking funny. Some dame on a train, stuff like that.

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Debra Esolen's avatar

We have seen those films, Tom. He had a major career on both sides of the pond.

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Suzanne M. Cruz's avatar

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