Beauty

Bennett 2021-12-09 08:01:22

This film is an example of Hitchcock's use of McGoffin. Although Hitchcock uses the emotional entanglement of the hero and heroine as the plot clue in this film, which is considered to be a love theme, the secrets they want to explore and the uranium ore used to make the atomic bomb in the film are the core of the development of the film’s plot. . But the secret that the protagonist of the film is searching for is that we haven’t seen it at the end of the film, but what does it matter? Hitchcock has already told us that the secret is not really important. What’s important is the process of finding the secret, suspense. Just tell a story

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  • Madame Sebastian: Wouldn't it be a little too much if we both grinned at her like idiots.

  • Alicia: Look, I'll make it easy for you. The time has come when you must tell me you have a wife and two adorable children... and this madness between us can't go on any longer.

    Devlin: Bet you've heard that line often enough.

    Alicia: [hurt] Right below the belt every time. That isn't fair, Dev.