Fear made suspense like a creative sublimation. Hitchcock had that gift for the recreation of any fear between symbols that connect with the subconscious and unsuspected twists of his plots. A virtuoso who is greatly missed in color. Especially so that he would have summarized his art with the evolution of a cinema that was always technically improved but still in need of ingenious proposals.
However, we are left with unforgettable films loaded with scenes that, precisely because of that dominance of the symbolic towards the dreamlike, shock and overwhelm us. From the most requested dramas at the time to avant-garde thrillers for their days. Scripts collected from great novels or furnished from his overflowing imagination. Dozens of great works that are still valid today.
There are moments when Hitchcock's filmography, beyond the bathtub scene in «Psychosis», which for me represented that discovery of cinema as the art that overwhelms you from the most disturbing bewilderment. Like that woman, with a singular resemblance to a deceased wife, who appears wandering during the questioning of the suspected husband. Until he makes him confess. However, when the investigators went to thank said woman for her previously arranged role, she assured them that she had not been able to go ...
Or when the prisoner prepares the escape plan with the undertaker, agreeing to be put in a coffin as the only way to escape and then be released by him. Until, due to the delay, he lights a match inside the coffin when he hears the earth fall and discovers that he is accompanied by the aforementioned undertaker, who has died unexpectedly.
Within a subjectivity that Hitchcock's good work can never encompass, we are going to select what is for me the best of it best of hitchcock. Get ready for a selection that will blow your mind ...
Top 3 Recommended Movies from Alfred Hitchcock
Strangers on a train
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:The perfect crime does not exist. Unless someone else does it for you, in which case the motives fade and the perfect alibi appears without further ado. The mind capable of devising the matter was none other than that of Patricia Highsmith, loaded as we already know with unfathomable storms. The point is that Hitchcock magnified the proposal even more.
For the connivance of the matter at least one of the two characters must know part of the other's life. Thus, the proposal to exchange crimes may have greater initial acceptance. The dialogues between Guy and Walker besiege us with a feeling of the strangest treachery. Violence, the urge to reap a life appears to us as a synergy between minds located on the threshold of animosity capable of anything.
Guy, a young tennis champion, is approached by Bruno, a young man who knows about his life and miracles through the press and who, unexpectedly, proposes a double murder, but exchanging the victims in order to mutually guarantee impunity. This way they could solve their respective problems: he would suppress Guy's wife (who does not want to grant him a divorce) and, in exchange, Guy would have to murder Bruno's father so that Bruno could inherit a great fortune and live at his expense.
Rear Window
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:The same Stephen King He returned to the issue of convalescence and confinement in "Misery" as the most claustrophobic of the presentations. Almost nothing happens for those who wait for a physical recovery. But in that interim where one's life stops, the most unexpected things can happen because the focus changes and aspects that go unnoticed become the shadows of life that always lurk but are almost never paid attention to...
As for the creator of the original idea in its cinematographic aspect, Hitchcock considered that the lives of others were too routine. Everything points to mediocrity, to normality in the smiling neighbors who wish us good morning. But if we stop for a moment we can delve into the voyeuristic pleasure of the most intimate observation. And maybe there we will discover that nothing was so "normal"...
Stewar, a photojournalist, is forced to rest with one leg in a cast. Despite the company of his girlfriend Kelly and his nurse Ritter, he tries to escape boredom by observing from his apartment window with binoculars what is happening in the houses across the street. Due to a series of strange circumstances, he becomes suspicious of a neighbor whose wife has disappeared.
Psychosis
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:The quintessential thriller masterpiece. The precedent for hundreds of films where the most ominous psychopathy hangs over the protagonist on duty. Only that Hitchcock loads the idea from the most human philias and phobias to make the madness more tangible.
Norman Bates may even have a certain starting charm. The kind guy to ask questions on the street. But in the same way that Ed Gein, the actual character Bates is based on, hid his fiery hells from traumatic childhoods, Bates is not who he seems. His mother's disguise is terrifying because, beyond its simplicity, it leads us to that labyrinthine space of atavistic fears, traumas and guilt.
Everything is unleashed like a hatred focused on Marion Crane, the unexpected traveler who stops at Bates' motel because any place is good for her to escape in the middle of the storm. That is why there is a certain feeling that someone who comes from their own dark worlds ends up in the mouth of the wolf. Your last dinner with Bates is not wasted. He is about to meet Norman and his poor sick mother ...
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