Post by Capo on Jul 22, 2007 22:07:02 GMT
Rich and Strange
Alfred Hitchcock 1931 UK
A bored married couple go travelling the world, and fall for other people.
Probably not rich, but certainly strange: Hitchcock's unconventional, all-seeing narrative style lends this an empathy and sympathy for just about everyone involved, so that for all the laughs (they're aren't many, but it's got a charm about it even so), it seems, once finished, a scathing tragedy, an account of treachery and fragility in women and blindsightedness and honesty in men. Its technical faults are crude and distracting now, the acting obvious and the use of sound limited and disappointing (two years following Blackmail), but its characterisation and final reel help to retain a certain interest.
Alfred Hitchcock 1931 UK
A bored married couple go travelling the world, and fall for other people.
Probably not rich, but certainly strange: Hitchcock's unconventional, all-seeing narrative style lends this an empathy and sympathy for just about everyone involved, so that for all the laughs (they're aren't many, but it's got a charm about it even so), it seems, once finished, a scathing tragedy, an account of treachery and fragility in women and blindsightedness and honesty in men. Its technical faults are crude and distracting now, the acting obvious and the use of sound limited and disappointing (two years following Blackmail), but its characterisation and final reel help to retain a certain interest.