Capo
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Post by Capo on Jul 28, 2007 15:35:42 GMT
Frenzy Alfred Hitchcock 1972 UK An unemployed alcoholic is suspected to be London's recent serial rapist… In line with the lowly backstreets of London, Hitchcock makes his most vulgar film, structured half-shabbily, half-effectively, into three parts: in the first he wrong foots the audience, in the second he transfers focus from the suspect to the actual killer, and in the third he shifts focus again to the police who investigated the murders. The transitions between the first and second act is the most sexually and violently explicit scene in all his work, an elongated rape which hits home hard. There are some other fine moments, too: the slow, grimly silent track back from another would-be rape scene out onto the busily oblivious street outside; the discovery of the body from the first rape scene, which is probably the longest Hitchcock's held a camera static without anything happening in frame; the morbidly funny scene in which our serial killer sifts through potato sacks to find the corpse he's just buried amongst them. Like all of his later works, though, it's sometimes unbearably long-winded, and, to be frank, rather dull at times. Its evocation of a sleazy, gossip-ridden, untrusting society is very effective, though.
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