Le Soif du Mal (Touch of Evil), Orson Welles, 1958 (The Lady of the Tribulation) A car bomb explosion on the US-Mexico border involved Mexican official Vargas and American police detective Quinlan. Soon, the two had a disagreement. Vargas discovered Quinlan's practice of forging evidence to send someone to jail, and at the same time Vargas's wife was kidnapped by the police and the underworld collusion... It's been a long time since I watched any Hollywood movies. Orson Welles made this kind of film that tells the story well and makes you satisfied without spending any money. At the beginning, a classic three-minute long shot was very successful; Marlene Dietrich appeared in the film, she played Quinlan (Orson Welles himself)’s lover, her temperament called a cold and compelling temperament; and Janet Leigh was in The scene of the Motel room being broken into and kidnapped seems to be a preview of her killing scene in "The Cry" two years later: Hitchcock noticed the door Welles opened the door of deep fear in the American middle class and interpreted it It became a violent milestone in the movie with more than 70 shots in 45 seconds... As a film in the 1950s, although there is no lack of stereotypes in this film, it is clear that Welles does not have any sense of American superiority. Instead, it continues to disrupt and even Break the structure of "America = Security and Order/Mexico = Violence and Chaos". The physical boundaries, language boundaries, and psychological boundaries that appear repeatedly in the film are very intriguing. (In the Trump era, it makes sense...)
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