Friday, January 29, 2010

'Rope'

I really can't imagine there being an even more different movie for Alfred Hitchcock to make. It's basically a play. Put to film.

And it captures the frantic and nervous energy set forth by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in "Crime and Punishment" all stemming from the idea of murdering someone and kinda getting away with it from the authorities but also from one's own mind.

Except Raskolnikov didn't have Jimmy Stewart unravelling his crime. He was better off.

Anyway, it's crazy that he tried to sneak in a theater production to the big screem to try and make it work. The camera work alone is phenomenal and worth the price of admission.

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