I see Hitchcock-a film director in the eyes of a perfectionist

Terrence 2022-03-20 09:01:02

The reason that prompted me to write this article is very strange.
I had a dream last night, and most of the plot in the dream comes from this movie.
Waking up early in the morning felt a bit scary, because I watched this movie five years ago, and only watched it once, and never re-watched it again. I always felt that what I liked was his earlier film in the UK, and I still keep it With old English humor and self-deprecating, after arriving in the United States, he took too much care of fast-paced and commercial Americans, too dark and pornographic, and his techniques tended to pursue skills, losing his early innocence and simplicity.

His works have a strong Catholic color, that is, they are very sensitive to crime. On the one hand, they have the desire to commit crimes. I even think his films are textbooks to instigate people to commit crimes, but on the other hand they are his severe warnings. Audiences who have just been grateful for crimes have to be punished for crimes, and even the perfect crime will show its feet, so they cannot commit crimes.

As the number one with Enneagram, I deeply understand the fear of crime and the desire to punish crimes.
Human nature is evil and greedy, so it must be severely punished. This is what I think is the obvious warning in his works that evil repays evil. If I don't have a sense of religion, a characteristic of constantly reviewing and restraining myself, then I won't really understand his films. To understand and understand his works, one must have a sense of religion.

The reason why the heroine in the film died so terribly, earth-shattering, and completely naked with no dignity is that the director is preaching a severe punishment --- see, a guilty woman who commits adultery and theft should be like this Died like a pig, her beautiful appearance evoked a man's desire for crime. This is God's punishment and retribution.
The protagonist is also a sinner, killing his mother and her lover, so he spends his whole life in guilt and condemnation, becomes a mental patient, and finally gets jailed.
Both men are guilty.

I always think that, deep in Hitchcock's heart, there is a person who is completely different from his appearance, and he is also a dual personality like Norman.
We know that he is a loyal good husband, a kind father, an English man who leads a normal life in real life. But the impression I got from his films is that he is actually a sadist who likes pranks and distrusts human nature. His films are playing fool-like audiences, and the audience is willing to be scared to death by him.
In his childhood, he must have had the experience of severely punishing mischief or mischief after being discovered by an adult, otherwise he would not hate humans like this, and he would use this game to vent his anger when he grows up. He took off the veil of humanity, revealed the darkest of them, and played in the palm of his hand like a naughty child, ruling like a sophisticated judge.
A person who has no desire to commit a crime can't shoot a work like his. He is playing an adult game-murder.
Murder is an adult game of wisdom and courage, even though he himself is a blameless good man. He is satisfying his desire for murder.

In terms of understanding human nature, he and Bergman are the same profound psychological masters. Although one is in a poetic way and the other is in a criminal way, both are conservative intellectuals, both on the stage of upper-class society, but in the new After all, there still remains a bit of humanity and childhood tenderness among the religious Swedes, while among the British Catholics, there is only a cold revelation of the original sin of man.
People are born with sin and can only strictly abide by the precepts and self-discipline.
He regards people as a combination of animal's physiological instincts and utilitarian instincts, and they become more pessimistic and negative with age.
His blonde girl is the goddess in his mind and the guilty prostitute in his eyes. He abuses them, kills them, and sets them up in embarrassing and dangerous situations to vent his unfulfilled Catholic desires--even if only In the movie.

His films have Catholics’ belief in the evil of human nature, the most greedy and selfish human nature, the most brutal and perverted horror and the deepest desire, but they are packaged with British elegance, exquisiteness and joking, which makes me I think of Hitler’s photographer Hoffman. He hung a wooden frame with the words Don’t Flip Me on the wall. Someone turned it over and saw a huge butt.
This is a vicious mockery of a person who is completely suspicious of human nature. It is sophisticated, nasty, and irresistible. Underneath Wenwen's appearance is a very erotic sarcasm.


When you lose trust in human nature, in order not to hang yourself and commit crimes, you have to regard law and religion as the standard of behavior. This is the thinking logic of perfectionists, and it is also the law of the jungle in Rome and the flame of religion.

Don't kill, don't commit adultery, do
n't steal, and respect your parents
...

I wondered why I had this nightmare. It turned out that I complained a few words to my mother on the phone yesterday, and then went to bed angrily, but had this dream!

I am guilty and deserve to be punished. Write an article to redeem my sins.

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Extended Reading
  • Randy 2021-10-20 18:59:01

    Let's look at Norman's last smile, the hair is terrifying!

  • Hollis 2022-03-23 09:01:02

    It should be the best work of Fatty Xi's life: when Marion drove in the rain, the voice-over and the sound of the rain combined perfectly, and the scene of the murder in the bathroom was a groundbreaking feat! In the end, the horror smile of the hero and the scene of the skeleton superimposed on top of each other made the horror even more terrifying.

Psycho quotes

  • Marion Crane: You can't buy off unhappiness with pills.

  • Norman Bates: The mattress is soft and there're hangers in the closet and stationary with "Bates' Motel" printed on it in case you want to make your friends back home envious.

    [nervous laughter]

    Norman Bates: And, the, eh, over there.

    Marion Crane: The bathroom.

    Norman Bates: Yeah.