Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)

We see the majority of the action from the ‘Rear Window’ of L.B Jefferies’ flat. So naturally, we side with him and his point of view on the situation he’s in. In a normal position we would be almost put off by L.B’s stalker-ish nature, but because we’re with him (and he can’t get away from us anyway) we see it as a typical behaviour … Continue reading Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)

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North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

Roger Thornhill likes to carry around a matchbox with his initials on it, in the middle of them there is a ‘0’, as in R ‘0’ T. Thornhill has no middle name. This is the key to the concept of the film ‘North by Northwest’. The ‘0’ represents that there is a hole in the plot: the man, the myth, the legend… Kaplan. Even Thornhill … Continue reading North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

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