Hitchcock's Films - A Ranking

It's been a long time since I have seen the movie, and only remembered the ending so I went to the search library wiki. I found the plot sad. You are trapped in unhappy situations and believe that someone else holds the key to your happiness. In Guy's situation, who had the money, him or his wife? If it was his money, he could leave. So what about his reputation, his wife was cheating and he wanted out, pay her whatever for your freedom. If the money was hers, he was greedy. I did note that it seems the laws protected women more than men, preventing them from leaving any woman, giving her a pass. I could understand how it destroyed some of his humanity.


As for Bruno, I'm not sure how he allowed himself to lose his humanity, not to value it. It's perplexing, because he had the presence of mind to not incriminate himself (killing his father), but could kill a stranger. What was going on in his home, to make him want to kill his father, what acts or lack of love prompted the hate? Or was his family the victim of his character? He seemed to follow a set of rules, and applied this logic to his father and deemed he unacceptable. The question is who taught him the rules, his father or society.

From my point of view, we can think of evil, and maybe speak of it. But only a certain population can do it. Half of my brain believes that thinking and speaking it is wrong, so we are not better clinging to a love in our hearts that we are safe. But certain situations trigger violent responses, so we must always be on guard to protect our humanity. I hear stories how people forgive attackers, and pray that I am one of them. That's not to say someone should not protect themselves from harm.

And yes, from the summary, it sounds better than Dial M for Murder, and would make my top 5.

she loved poetry and romance, but she hit the glass ceiling at birth