for the great director Hitchcock

Jacklyn 2022-03-22 09:02:01

"Hot Hand Destroys Flowers" pays tribute to the classics, and all the development of the story and the movement of characters are played under the careful arrangement of the director. At the beginning of the story, the police tracked Charlie, and Charlie tore up the newspaper, and there was already a suspense. As the story progresses, the girl has a crush on a mature man, Charlie gives her a ring, the girl finds the ring engraved with her name, and finds the newspaper that Charlie hid and so on. There is no thriller or wow, but every detail makes the audience feel cold. When Charlie is ready to do something to the girl, the arrangement of stairs and trains makes the audience worry about the girl's safety. The most classic fragment is a monologue of Charlie at the dinner table, with a distant vision, a faint unspeakable pain, a calm tone, but the words are full of sin. It seems to explain why he became the executioner. In the end, although the girl escaped, she did not point out that Charlie was the murderer, which was also the director's ingenuity. In this way, it fits the theme of the film's "Hot Hands Destroying Flowers"

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Shadow of a Doubt quotes

  • Jack Graham: Charlie, think. How much do you know about your uncle?

    Young Charlie Newton: Why, he's my mother's brother.

  • Young Charlie: Oh, what's the matter with you two? Do you always have to talk about killing people?

    Joseph Newton: We're not talking about killing people. Herb's talking about killing me and I'm talking about killing him.

    Emma Newton: It's your father's way of relaxing.

    Young Charlie: Can't he find some other way to relax?