In fact, his personal appearance is very special. Although Hitchcock likes to hide in each of his movies, in general, he will act as a passerby in movies.
It is said that this time he did not deliberately hide in the corner of the movie screen because this is a serious movie, and he does not want the audience to be distracted by looking for Hitchcock's game in the movie.
Of course, this is only a special point. The truly special part of this movie is the source of his shock.
This is definitely a very depressing and chilling movie, but there are no crazy murderers, no conspiracy agencies, and no abnormal flocks of birds. The protagonist is forced into desperation, only the ordinary institutional institutions-the police and the courts.
The protagonist of the movie is a very ordinary man with a virtuous wife and two young sons. He works as a double bass player in a high-end nightclub. His income is not high and his living is no problem, but occasionally he has to borrow some money. He always goes home on time, without any bad habits.
It was such a good gentleman. In order to pay for his wife's treatment of wisdom teeth, he went to the insurance company to withdraw a fortune, but was mistaken by a female employee of the insurance company as a robber who had robbed the company and reported to the police secretly. So when the actor went home that night, he was taken away by the police at the door of his house.
Later, he and his family faced various difficulties. He was taken by the police to the canteen for identification. He was trapped in a cell and could not sleep all night. He could only be at the mercy of others and could not resist. In order to prove their innocence, he and his wife struggled to find evidence of their alibi six months ago, but the witness had passed away. Under tremendous pressure, his wife became insane and was sent to a mental hospital. In the end, it was close to coincidence that the real robber was captured, and his guilt was cleared.
The police in this movie are actually not rude, even polite, but when the huge state machine presses its wrist on an ordinary person, a strong sense of unpredictability and manipulation is in the Greek district. Under Cork's lens, people are still breathless.
Ordinary people can only be disadvantaged groups in front of the state apparatus.
At the end of the movie, this man said to the real robber that you hurt my wife. However, his tragedy did not actually stem from the robber. The robber actually didn't know that there was such a person who looked similar to himself.
All his misfortune occurred after the insurance company's staff misidentified it. However, that is not the root cause of this tragedy. Misunderstanding is inherently unavoidable.
The problem is that when this person is identified, his human rights disappeared in an instant. The police and the court can almost do whatever they want with him, and he is in a state of being manipulated. So his wife would say that it doesn’t matter what she does.
We can also notice that in this case, there seems to be a presumption of guilt. In fact, the prosecutors do not have direct evidence. They only have the testimony of an eyewitness, and the witness may completely confess the wrong person. But the suspect must start looking for evidence to prove his innocence. For an ordinary person, this is too difficult.
We can even suspect that when the real robber was first caught, he was still begging. This was my first robbery. So was he the real murderer of the robbery six months ago? The system did not really give him a chance to defend.
When a person is faced with the state apparatus, there is no system to protect his human rights, which is very scary.
This movie was shot in 1956. Two years before, Hollywood had just walked out of McCarthy's horror era. Hitchcock must have been deeply impressed by the fear created by the state apparatus at the time.
This story can be traced back to a deeper source, the famous story about Hitchcock being imprisoned at the age of 5. It is said that that experience inspired Hitchcock's later creation of the shocking film. In this sense, this adaptation of "The Revenge", which is adapted from real people, is the root of all Hitchcock's shocking films in reality.
Hitchcock's film language in this work is very different from other works, and the lens application is very calm and delicate. The switching of a large number of close-up shots and subjective shots accurately conveys the feelings of the characters. For example, the protagonist was taken into a police car for a section at the door of his home, and the camera quickly switched between the close-up of the protagonist's face and his subjective shots of observing the four policemen in the car. The four policemen were all expressionless, cold like marble in the low light at night. When I watched the first policeman, the profile of his beautiful wife was reflected in the window of the roadside house in the background, and then the warm home disappeared soon.
The actor is played by Henry Fonda, and his appearance is almost exactly the same as his role in "12 Angry Men" in 1957 (that's my favorite movie). There are a lot of close-up shots in "The Reunification", Fonda relies on his own expression to convey the character's fear and helplessness very accurately, which is completely different from the rational bravery he showed in "12 Angry Men". Henry Fonda is an amazing actor.
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