You think you have stepped into the 21st century, you think you have seen suspense movies including "Mulholland Drive", "Deadly ID", "Terrorist Tanker", "Shutter Island", "The Sixth Sense", you think you Admired directors are the great Spielberg, David Lynch, David Fincher or Nolan. In fact, as long as you are a believer in suspense thriller movies, you can't avoid Hitchcock.
My roommate used to despise Hitchcock and thought he was just a director. She couldn't understand why I always admired Hitchcock and his films so much, and even borrowed and bought a lot of his books. Communication in English class is also about Hitchcock.
However, when she saw Hitchcock's "The Psycho", she was amazed and said she didn't expect the ending. I regret it very much, because before watching "Psycho", I already knew the general plot, and I lost that sense of surprise. However, it still doesn't reduce my excitement and nervousness while watching the movie.
It can be said that the film that first brought me into contact with Hitchcock was "Strangers on a Train". I clearly remember that night I was filling out the draft form of college entrance examination with my mother. At that time, the ICS channel was broadcasting "Stranger on a Train". I had seen the introduction of this first film that proposed the idea of exchanging murder, but the contest between the two protagonists after the murder deeply attracted me. The compactness of the film The feeling made me almost breathless, and even the volunteers were thrown aside and it was difficult to take into account. When I slept, I didn't have time to finish watching the film, so I closed my eyes and tried to catch the film.
The next night, the ICS channel showed Hitchcock's "Butterfly Dream", which I had seen before. But the memory is a little fuzzy. In the beginning, watching Joan Fontaine and Lawrence Oliver's fascinated love was really comforting, but at the end I was sighed when I saw the truth at the end. The next day I excitedly told my classmates, my mother, and then my old man. Mom watched it twice.
It is unimaginable that I will be shocked and attracted by Hitchcock for two days in a row, and I will be haunted by dreams, and it will be difficult to calm down.
The weekend after that, I watched another work with Hitchcock, "Reaper of Souls," directed at the "Stranger on a Train" actor Farley Granger.
I originally watched it for Farley Granger, but I didn't expect it to be conquered by the bad smile of John Doyle, the other protagonist of the film.
From the beginning of the film, I was deeply attracted. Two handsome young college students murdered their classmate David. An extraordinary confidence bloomed on Brandon's face, while Philip, the accomplice, was afraid but had no doubts. motive for doing so.
In this crazy and weird state, the two arranged a party on the coffin and invited David's relatives and friends. When the elegant and wise professor arrived, the situation became more complicated.
In the scene where they discuss the "Superman Theory" and the benefits of killing people, my blood boils, knowing it's wrong, but also reveling in the sheer horror of the theory. And he was still full of hope that the two terrifying young men could escape the law. The movie is just that one scene, but it always touches my heart. I think this is one of the movies that is well done in movies that also have only one scene (such as "Twelve Angry Men", "Dream Into Reality"), at least it is not boring, and after watching it, it is very satisfying.
After reading it, I have an in-depth understanding of Nietzsche's "Superman Theory". Because the imagery created by Brandon and Philip in the play is so strong, I can't forget it for a long time. Afterwards, he also wrote the novel "Exotic Dreams", in which Brandon and Philip were the protagonists' names, and the "Superman Theory" was also involved.
After that, I felt that it was still unsatisfactory, so I wrote a novel "Nervous Woman" with transhumanism as the core.
It can be said that the influence of Reaper of Souls on me is really profound, and it still haunts me, and it always reminds me from time to time.
Now that I think about it, it's not "Reaper of Souls", not "Superman Theory", or starring John Doyle and Farley Granger.
The man who was really haunted - was Alfred Hitchcock.
View more about Rope reviews
