"These women, these useless women, what do they do? In hotels, in the best hotels, you can see thousands of these women every day. They Eating money, drinking/losing cards, having fun all day and night. Smells like copper and only shows off jewelry. These horrible...fat, old, greedy women."
That's a very powerful finishing touch in the film A scene, not only is the process of little Charlie confirming that his uncle is the murderer, but also makes the audience have the same suspicion, bringing us closer to the same conclusion as little Charlie. This scene also suggests that Charlie is a little crazy; his murder is not just for theft, but with a deep hatred of women.
In this scene, director Hitchcock's close-up framing endows the scene with a unique power and gives the audience a great shock. In "Silence of the Lambs", Jonathan Demme also used this technique to film the murderer Hannibal Lecter, deeply bringing the audience's mood into the story.
"Breathless" director Jean-Luc Godard praised: "He (Hitchcock) made the whole world tremble. At the same time, he made the thriller a literary work."
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