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Ayla 2022-02-19 08:01:59
Director said
This film was written by the German film master Fritz Lange in the 20th century and is an early work of film noir. As a German expressionist film director, Lange incorporated the German expressionist style into American Hollywood films: strong contrast between light and dark, unstable oblique...
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Juliet 2022-02-19 08:01:59
Double interpretation of desire
While watching the movie, accompanied by the roar of thunderstorms outside the window, I stared nervously at Professor Wenli, who was driving on a rainy night on the screen: When passing the toll gate, I was annoyed by his sudden mistake, for fear that the toll collector would see the corpse in the...
Harold Minjir
The Woman in the Window quotes
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[last lines]
Streetwalker: Pardon me. Will you give me a light?
Richard Wanley: No. Oh, no. Thank you indeed. Not for a million dollars.
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[first lines]
Richard Wanley: [lecturing] The Biblical injunction "Thou shalt not kill" is one that requires qualification in view of our broader knowledge of impulses behind homicide. The various legal categories such as first and second degree murder, the various degrees of homicide, manslaughter, are civilized recognitions of impulses of various degrees of culpability. The man who kills in self defense, for instance, must not be judged by the same standards applied to the man who kills for gain.
