Necrophilia under horror and suspense
Hitchcock’s own vertigo shooting technique: the lens is pulled back while zooming, creating a psychedelic feeling of vertigo. The whole movie is a dizzy world.
Use of color
In the restaurant, the male protagonist Scotty met the female protagonist Madeleine for the first time. He chose to be in a closed space with bright red walls. The other people’s clothing can be selected in cool colors and inconspicuous colors. Only the dress worn by the heroine is bright green. One is that it clearly expresses the position of the heroine, and the other is that only the position of the heroine is in the eyes of the hero, which implies that the heroine is already addicted to the heroine at this time.
When the male lead followed the female lead to the cemetery for the first time, Hitchcock chose to add a layer of filter to the camera to make the whole picture present a hazy romantic and poetic feeling, the picture has a little green color . This extraordinary behavior of the heroine, on the one hand, shows her initial mental illness tendency, and on the other hand, the story of "" is initially revealed by the story of the grandmother in the cemetery.
Hint of location
When the protagonist started to follow the heroine, Hitchcock chose Los Angeles as the location. There were many uphill and downhill roads in Los Angeles. On the day of driving to follow the heroine, the vehicles were sinking downhill, suggesting the man. In the process of stalking the heroine, the Lord kept sinking in his heart, and gradually became addicted to the heroine.
Choice of space
The female protagonist is different from ordinary women in shopping places. Instead of choosing a bustling place, she chooses a dark and sparsely populated place: cemetery, flower shop, art gallery, riverside. It implies that the heroine is mentally ill, and guides the hero into a misunderstanding step by step. Deliberately show the heroine's alternative behavior.
After jumping into the river, Sequoia Forest's choice further hinted to the male protagonist of her suicidal tendency through the heroine's abnormal statements and performance, and further deepened the male protagonist's wrong understanding.
Eight minute flashback
Through the memories of the heroine in her room, flashbacks are used to tell the audience the truth. Also tell the audience how the owner of the shipyard transformed this Goldilocks. Previously, the audience’s vision was consistent with that of the male protagonist, but through the flashback of the heroine Judy’s memories, the narrative vision changed, and the audience’s mentality changed from suspense to shock. The hero is excited.
The hero's transformation of Judy again
Through the transformation of clothing and hairstyle, it seems that the male protagonist has successfully found his lost lover. If this goes on, it seems that the man has found his lover, and the pretending woman is actually the original lover. The continuation of the fake love seems to be a "satisfying" story.
But the male protagonist is a detective, and the wife-killing case that seems perfect and full of loopholes will surely be discovered by the male protagonist. In fact, the same is true. From the "Carrot's Necklace" left by Judy, the hero discovers the truth step by step. Half-forced Judy to the attic of fake suicide and forced the truth out through eager dialogue. And at the top of the attic due to a mistake, Judy fell to the attic and died.
The pervert of the male protagonist
In fact, the male protagonist’s pursuit of the truth is not because the detective profession’s exploration of the truth is not an inner moral condemnation, but the inability to accept that the beloved woman has been transformed by others and is more successful than he transformed it. ! It is even possible that Judy once belonged to another man. Judy did not follow to leave, but chose to stay in love with him. It is most likely that Judy was abandoned by the murdered wife and male, which made his perverted psychology unacceptable.
There was once a film critic's evaluation that can explain this view well. "The image of the woman in the movie is largely a man's self-imagining. When the problem is successfully solved, the woman has no meaning to exist and goes to extinction."
From his inner interpretation, the male protagonist is in, he imagined that after the death of Madeleine, he could not get out of his perverted necrophilia, so after he met Judy, his apparent love was to understand and save himself perverted. In the heart, change his necrophilia. He needs a woman who is the same as the corpse to resurrect, fall in love with him, accompany him to re-experience the horrible attic, and verify that the woman's death is due to other people's calculations rather than his own mistakes.
So after Judy's verification that the truth can calm his perverted inner suffering, Judy's position will no longer be important and even he needs Judy to die. But he loves her, even if this love is not as good as his love for himself. Judy must die, morally she must die, legally she must die, and most importantly, in order to cover up her cowardice and mistakes and correct her inner necrophilia, Judy must die. So he took her to the bed in the attic and "accidentally" caused Judy to fall to death when he was frightened. After Judy fell, the male protagonist stood by the window. His appearance was surprised and regretful, but his subconscious mind was relaxed and he was liberated!
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