To this day I don't know how Hitchcock handled this case, so it doesn't make much sense to talk about the term "remake" here. However, if you just look at this as a separate film before and after, I think I can say a few words.
The death
of a prostitute There are many movies about prostitutes, and murders involving prostitutes are not uncommon, which are somewhat related to the real world. In the film, various experts have given various explanations to the murderer's criminal psychology. Just when we were all about to believe it, the authoritative expert suddenly pointed to the landlady wrongly, and the director did hint at this mistake. ——The answer from the landlady (remembering the death of her son) that was different from what the experts expected (remember the death of her son) subverts this superb professional interpretation, so it is another unsolved murder.
The creepy and
mysterious tenant of the tenant appears only in the presence of the landlady, who has never been seen by the landlord. The landlord therefore always doubted the existence of the tenant, and the landlady also fell into a deadlock of self-explaining. Does the tenant exist? This is also more puzzling because of the excessive privacy habits of the tenants who only appear in front of the landlady, and even the landlady is still inexplicable.
The tenant is the murderer?
Who is the murderer? This is our most immediate question. This question afflicts almost everyone in the film. But in the end our results are still uncertain. The director intentionally hinted at some kind of clue, but just like the footprints that appeared, even if the tenant exists, even if the tenant hides his boots, even if the murderer wears boots to commit the murder, does this necessarily mean that the tenant is the murderer?
The film finally gives us a clear question, and a plausible answer. Do we have the ability to restore the murder in which we were not present? Even if we were there, like the perspective of the landlady mirrored in our perspective, would we still insist that what we were experiencing was real?
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