A 1948 film in color, the standard Hitchcock opening: Two young men are strangling the other with a rope, and a murder is going on.
The deceased was David, a high-achieving Harvard student, a wealthy family, and two other murderers who were classmates. Why did they murder David? What is the motivation?
The murderer Brandon is the mastermind, glib and ruthless, believes that murder is an art, and as a superior person has the power to kill and kill the inferior, his theory comes from Professor Rupert, from Hitler, from Nietzsche's "Superman" theory. But the real motive for his murder appears to be an extreme form of his past thrill-seeking.
Professor Rupert is thoughtful, observant, and full of sense of humor. He holds the opinion that "murder is an art", and the privilege of killing is only owned by a few people. The core idea of the Clearance Plan? I don't know if Hitchcock sued them for infringement, haha.
Philips is the accomplice, he is one of those people who is influenced by Brandon's evil charm, he must be as excited to sleep as Brandon before the murder, but once the murder does happen, he is cowardly.
In the subsequent development of the story, he is used as a time bomb, and he may reveal flaws or even confess directly at any time.
The two murdered their classmates in broad daylight, and it was too difficult to abandon the body, so they put David in a wooden cabinet. Everything is ready, and after they have exchanged their feelings about the murder, how can this perfect art of murder have no audience?
Under Brandon's plan, a party will be held at the scene of the murder soon. The invited guests included David's parents, the girl who pursued David, the girl's ex-boyfriend, Professor Rupert, and a woman who was probably the landlord.
The table set in the kitchen was also temporarily switched by Brandon. He used David's cabinet as a dining table to entertain guests, which was really exciting.
The guests arrived one after another, but David alone, a party with a weird atmosphere began, and the professor gradually turned into a detective role, and under the analysis and inference bit by bit, he found the murderer.
A positive ending. Or a negative ending: Professor Rupert returns to the party to retrieve the cigarette case and question the duo as in the original story. Philip couldn't bear the pressure and the incident was exposed, forcing Rupert's heart out, and then the shy professor turned around and started praising the two, appreciating the entire crime process and killing the drunk Philip with Brandon.
But from the beginning of the story we didn't like the murderer duo, and it's obviously not what most people want to let the murderer win.
The most impressive sequence of the movie is when the banquet ends, the landlady is chatting with the professor while clearing the books on the cabinet. This fixed shot lasts for a long time: the landlady walks back and forth from the foreground cabinet to the kitchen in the center of the frame. Several times, David's body was on the left, and the suspicious professor Rupert was on the right.
We know that the maid will definitely put the books in the cabinet after cleaning up, and time is passing little by little. When will she open the box in front of the professor first? Hitchcock's "Bomb".
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