"Destroying Flowers" tells the story of Uncle Charlie's visit to his sister's house in California. Uncle Charlie came to visit his sister's house. The niece who had always admired him discovered that he seemed to have an ulterior secret, and realized that he seemed to be the murderer in the report. Then the niece also found the originally smiling and amiable Uncle Charlie. There is also a sinister side.
The whole movie uses a very subtle technique, gradually showing the audience the dark side of Uncle Charlie's unknown. Uncle Charlie's visit at her sister's house is the main storyline visible to the audience, and a murderer that has not yet been caught is the main storyline behind the whole story.
One day, Uncle Charlie went to the bank of little Charlie’s father Joe to open an account, and made an untimely "misappropriation of public funds" joke with Joe at the counter, so that everyone present could hear it; before leaving, he opened it again "Joe is in The joke that you can sit in the position of the current manager in a few years has been heard by the manager. These two jokes made the people present extremely embarrassed, and also made the audience who heard this conversation feel that these insignificant conversations were neither polite nor out of date; it was just because the joking object was relatives, and they didn't say much.
At dinner time one day, Uncle Charlie suddenly praised the life in the small town, saying that the women in the small town are always busy and diligent, and the spoiled women in the city are stupid and useless, and they only know how to splurge. A disgusting monologue came out of his mouth:
These words made Charlie feel angry, and retorted: "They are human! Real people!" Uncle Charlie asked, "Really? Are they, Charlie? Do you think they are human, or are they fat and fat? Breathless animals? What will happen to obese and old animals?"
This strange speech expresses Uncle Charlie’s deep hatred for these middle-aged women; such crazy remarks degrading women to animals also indirectly show that his personality is a bit extreme, which makes people feel a little trembling. . When Uncle Charlie said this monologue, his eyes were dull, as if he was talking to himself, more like expressing thoughts from the depths of the soul, and the gradually advancing shots also matched the monologue, allowing the audience to get close to Uncle Charlie's heart. Until Charlie interjected, the camera stopped on Uncle Charlie’s expressionless face. Uncle Charlie looked at Charlie, his look was full of numbness and ruthlessness. This cold glance was also a disgust for those "useless women", not at all. mercy.
On the night before, little Charlie found the newspaper section torn up by his uncle Charlie in the library, and found that the initials of the last victim was the same as the initials on the ring that Uncle Charlie gave. And the strange conversation on the dining table is precisely the little Charlie, who has already noticed something wrong, speeds up the process of confirming that his uncle Charlie is the murderer. This scene has the effect of pushing the story forward, making the audience feel that they are getting closer to the truth, and the monologue also vaguely shows that the uncle Charlie is likely to be the murderer, and there is no need to say it bluntly. Since Uncle Charlie joked in the bank, such "excessive jokes" seemed commonplace in the eyes of the sister's family. Only Charlie had to accept the facts in pain in the process.
After Uncle Charlie found out that Charlie seemed to know something, but after learning about the closure of the case from the detective, Uncle Charlie still wanted to get rid of Charlie. Director Hitchcock used an advanced technique to show the sinister side of Uncle Charlie. For the first time, Charlie stumbled on the stairs in the backyard and almost fell down the stairs. Uncle Charlie appeared under the stairs, but did not come forward to help, but ran away. Although only Charlie was tripped in this scene, Uncle Charlie saw that Uncle Charlie escaped three actions; but this scene indirectly expressed that Uncle Charlie was the person who set the trap, and it also pushed the audience to understand the purpose of Uncle Charlie's next step. .
For the second time, Hitchcock told the audience directly that it was Uncle Charlie who started the car in the garage, pulled out the key, and instructed Charlie to go to the garage. Fortunately, He Bo, who often comes during dinner time, found out that Uncle Charlie did not succeed. For the third time, Uncle Charlie simply worked directly on the moving train. This was the most straightforward one and brought the story to a climax. While this progressive approach pushes the story to a climax, Uncle Charlie's sinister side is fully revealed, and the audience is getting closer and closer to the same conclusion.
However, to the end of the story, it was not clear who the murderer was. From the beginning of the movie, two men in suits and leather shoes followed Uncle Charlie; tore up the news in the newspaper; when they came to California, Detective Graham also investigated him; Detective Graham mentioned that the case had been closed, and Uncle Charlie was very happy; and finally thought To kill little Charlie who knows his secret. Judging from these plots, Uncle Charlie is the murderer. This is also the director's brilliance. It doesn't need to be said explicitly. Every clue leads the audience to the result he wants.
(But from the perspective of personal preference, I don’t particularly like watching this ending. The ending of the story is not completely clear, I always feel a breath of breath in my chest. But from another perspective, this may be this movie. Why is the movie called "Shadow of A Doubt". Until the end of the story, there will still be a thin mist in the hearts of the audience, and there will still be a'doubt' that still can't disperse.)
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