In Xi Pang's work, it should not be considered top-notch, more like a sketch (not a comedy sketch). The film is very delicate, and uses a limited perspective to maximize the narrative function. This limited perspective simplifies many questions (such as which woman the salesman went to the station with), allowing the audience to follow the protagonist’s thoughts closely.
Hitchcock is definitely a master in maintaining suspense and grasping the audience's psychology. Seeing the last plot of digging flowers, you will be taken aback. Suddenly you feel that the truth will come to light immediately, and you suddenly suspect that you are completely wrong. . On the other hand, Xi Pang always gives the audience something they want to see: such as peeping at the beautiful women changing clothes, dancing, such as the perfect heroine, such as the actor's ignorance or even indifference to the perfect heroine... but he will not take This kind of gift is regarded as flattery, and it is more about controlling the audience rather than obeying the audience.
Grace Kelly has a sense of incompatibility with the story and the actor James Stewart. Her beauty, her costumes, her fashion... This may be the effect Xi Pang wants. The male protagonist of that era still looked at women in a somewhat condescending manner. Is the problem between the two of them really solved at the end of the film? You can see Kelly’s use of travel guides to cover up fashion magazines. This is also a small irony, but it is hard to say whether it is satirizing the heroine or the male protagonist. (Stewart is so incomprehensible in the movie, you really don’t know what a girl like Kelly would like him...)
The movement of the camera and the translation and sliding of the lens are very in place, and the camera position is quite clever. The script of the film is actually a bit of a stage play, and the sense of cinema is brought about by the movement of the lens.
The sense of suspense in the film is much higher than the sense of horror, that is, the heroine is a little nervous when she is caught by the salesman when she falls with the hero. The ending is a bit sloppy.
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