![]() ![]() ![]() The viewer usually just prefers sitting on his seat, enjoying the ride - and it is exactly this where lies Hitchcock's sheer mastery and macabre thought, which often seems to be close to misanthropy. Although I am sure that one can immerse into the poetic world of the film without accepting Hitchcock's ethics, this doesn't make it any less vital, quite on the contrary, because Hitchcock's films' cruel world view always includes us, the audience, making it even harder to accept. It seems like Hitchcock hated selling his moniker 'The Master of Suspense' in order to advertise Spielbergs material. Alfred Hitchcock : Stop following me around like a puppy dog and get me a drink. ![]() My camera will tell you the truth, the absolute truth. It is precisely metaphysical, as the Cuban critic Guillermo Cabrera Infante once suggested, and always connected to the director's cynical philosophy. Im just a man hiding in the corner with my camera, watching. First and foremost, Strangers on a Train entices the viewer with its gripping atmosphere, but, as usual, the suspense is never mere suspense in its physical meaning for Hitchcock. The following is a partial list of unproduced Alfred Hitchcock projects, in roughly chronological order. Alfred Hitchcock often approached the theme of human and moral dichotomy through dialectical means to present reality in his films, but never as visually as in Strangers on a Train (1951) which is one of his most celebrated works. ![]()
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