"Reaper of Souls" viewing experience

Jeanne 2022-03-22 09:01:34

Old Hitchcock movies. Coincidentally, I was thinking about whether to watch "1917", but I watched the movie that day. This is Hitchcock's very bold work, a mirror of the forties of the twentieth century. Due to technical limitations, it is conceivable that the filming of this film is very difficult. So, it actually has editing points, and it is done through the close-up of the characters' clothes, there are about three or four. But there is a place in the middle, obviously jumping directly from one actor to another actor's face, it is estimated that the director really has no way. But if you don't look carefully, you won't notice at all. Even if it's a "pseudo-one-shot" movie, it's pretty awesome because of its originality! Due to the uniqueness of technology, the content of the film is easy to be ignored. Two poor college graduates, who according to Baidu are gay couples, conspired to strangle one of their classmates. The motivation is simply that they think this classmate is "inferior", but inferiors are not judged by wealth, but by intelligence and morals. Brandt, in particular, believed that the upper class had the right to sentence the lower class to death, so they killed the promising and rich second-generation David, hid the body in a large bookcase, and placed food on it. The feast of David's father. The father is played by Hitchcock himself, oh my god! But Brandt's arrogance led him to invite Rupert, the wise former headmaster of the university, who conveyed these madman's ideas to the students. Rupert soon found something suspicious, and when he knew that Brandt had killed him, he regretted it and decided to call the police. To be honest, the content of the film and the topic to be discussed are profound and thought-provoking. Who has the right to judge others, let alone take life and death. But this kind of situation, in today's Internet, has become more and more serious, ironic!

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Extended Reading
  • Stephania 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    Compared with the slightly tasteless value dialectic on the theme, the creative framework of "Secret Room and Long Shot" is the best basis for defining this film: this is a dialectic about form, and it is the display of the film's superiority in an extreme assumption. , is a work that can be used to clarify the boundary between "dramatic image" and "movie". In conventional dialogue scenes and highly confined spaces, the long-shot movement fails to focus on its function as a "real time and space fan", but the movement itself is important enough. It is a tape measure for the distance between characters. It brings an excellent moment of suspense in the human consciousness, and it also freely externalizes the thinking interpretation belonging to the character; at 34 minutes, the only three non-hidden editing will undoubtedly bring the highest light of the film: the power of editing is in the "one". The destruction of "Mirror to the End" reached its extreme value. At that time, the destructive power of editing was completely unified with the tension of performance and text, which announced the birth of a great front and back fight. To sum up, the still moments that are tantamount to "dramatic images" are linked by powerful movements and connected by that flamboyant editing point, and finally become an absolute film that takes place on the stage.

  • Margarita 2022-03-26 09:01:04

    The ideal form of this story in my mind is to focus more on psychological games rather than simple reasoning. The answer to the mystery has been revealed at the beginning of the film, and the audience's "will it be discovered?" mentality has not been well utilized. Criminal psychology It would have been an interesting point, but Hitchcock didn't care about that. The technique is quite interesting, it requires a strong spatial scheduling ability, and the transition and switching realized by occlusion will not be very blunt.

Rope quotes

  • Phillip: How did it feel... during it?

    Brandon: I don't remember feeling very much of anything... until his body went limp and I knew it was over. I felt tremendously exhilarated. How did you feel?

  • Brandon: [referring to his nearly empty glass of champagne] Kenneth, there's too much air in your glass.