Movie Essay

Francisca 2022-04-21 09:01:45

Different from Miss Marple's "Murder Revelation", who leads the audience bit by bit to find the truth of the matter, "Telephone Murder" tells the audience at the beginning, in an apartment at night, a beautiful wife Will be killed by the killer arranged by his husband (poor Grace Kelly...), not only that, the movie also tells the audience the details of the husband's plan to kill his wife, everything sounds so seamless, doesn't it? ? As an audience, I was substituted into it all at once. Can the plan be realized smoothly? I was actually worried for my husband, everything was unknown, my appetite was hung up, and I was even a little nervous, and the suspense was created like this. The plot is advancing little by little, and the focus on the screen has been locked on Mr. Mr., he is very nervous, from the very beginning, and things are not progressing as he planned, although the initial plan seemed impeccable, but in reality There are more and more uncertain factors. For example, his wife suddenly doesn't want to stay at home at night. After some "pleasant words" from him, his wife finally promised to stay at home at night to sort out her newspaper clippings; after that, it was not easy. I got the key in my wife's handbag; at the same-sex club, my husband's watch suddenly stopped moving needles again; when we arrived at the phone booth, someone happened to be energizing the front... All kinds of unexpected events made the sense of suspense continue to be amplified, and the psychological activities of the husband were also transmitted to As the viewer, I am also getting more and more nervous. There must be accidents and reversals, but when and how will they happen? I was thinking to myself, my heart was thumping and thumping.

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Extended Reading
  • Sincere 2022-03-23 09:01:40

    ❶Anti-routine - the plan can't keep up with the changes, adapt to the situation, and catch the previous script; It's copied, it can be borrowed, but it can't be made up by the audience's own brains), which leads to unfinished endings; ❸Unfortunately, it didn't break the rules to the end - Tony noticed the trap and got away with it. His indifference to drinking after the crime was revealed made up for this a little;

  • Bobby 2022-01-27 08:06:55

    I especially like this ending. He went, he stopped, he went, he came back, he wanted to understand.

Dial M for Murder quotes

  • Mark Halliday: [to Margot] Darling, I understand now, but that doesn't stop me from loving you.

  • C.A. Swan: Where's the nearest police station?

    Tony Wendice: Opposite the church, two minutes walk.

    C.A. Swan: Suppose I walk there now.

    Tony Wendice: What would you tell them?

    C.A. Swan: Everything.

    Tony Wendice: Everything? All about "Mr. Adams" and "Mr. Wilson"?

    C.A. Swan: I should simply tell them that you're trying to blackmail me into...

    Tony Wendice: ...Into?

    C.A. Swan: ...murdering your wife.

    Tony Wendice: [chuckles] I almost wish you would. When she heard that we'd have the biggest laugh of our lives.

    C.A. Swan: Aren't you forgetting something?

    Tony Wendice: Am I?

    C.A. Swan: You've told me quite a lot tonight.

    Tony Wendice: [scoffs] What of it?

    C.A. Swan: Suppose I tell them how you followed her to that studio in Chelsea and watched them cooking spaghetti and all that rubbish. Wouldn't that ring a bell?

    Tony Wendice: Oh, it certainly would. They'd assume you followed her there yourself.

    C.A. Swan: Me? Why should I?

    Tony Wendice: Why should you steal her handbag? Why should you write her all those blackmail notes? Can you prove you didn't? You certainly can't prove I did. It'll be a straight case of your word against mine.

    C.A. Swan: That'd puzzle them, wouldn't it? What could you say?

    Tony Wendice: I should simply say that you came here tonight, half-drunk, and tried to borrow money on the strength that we were at college together. When I refused, you mentioned something about a letter belonging to my wife. As far as I could make out, you were trying to sell it to me. I gave you what money I had, and you gave me the letter. It has your fingerprints on it, remember? Then you said if I went to the police you'd tell some crazy story about my wanting you to murder my wife. Before you go any further, old boy, do consider the inconvenience. You see, I'm quite well known, and there'd be pictures of you as well. And sooner or later there'd be a deputation of landladies and lodgers who would step forward and testify as to your character. And someone is almost certain to have seen you with Miss Wallace. You were careful not to be seen around with her, I noticed. You usually met in out-of-the-way places where you wouldn't be recognized.