This could have been a great movie but like a lot of the films of this era its too long and very dull, how can you feel any suspense when it takes this long for this story to play out, by the end i really didnt care if he was guilty or not, if the character that Joan Fontaine was that dumb to stick around for that long I dont care what happens to her. Some of Hitchcocks films are good but so far from what Ive seen alot of them are incredibly overrated.
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Attention deficit disorder really appears to be a social epidemic, given too many posts of the sort of the OP's on IMDb, and of course throughout the internet. I can't think of a single superflous scene or even take in the film. The narrative proceeds in a robust and even economical fashion.
shareFor me it was a bit dull, partly because the ending felt like it didn't tie in well enough with the rest of the film. Maybe if there had been more of a clue -- or multiple clues -- earlier in the film that Johnnie was suicidal (other than hinting at it when he seemed to not like the idea of living without Lina). I may have been on the edge of my seat thinking, "Is he planning to kill himself or other people, or both?!"
Hitchcock was forced into this ending by industry production code restrictions at the time, and he wrote his preference would have been to end the film in an entirely different manner drawn directly from the novel. Your feeling about the disjointed ending is organically correct because of this, and I think that, except for the ending the film is excellent. In every other way Hitchcock is suspenseful as usual, and the acting is unbeaten, especially as compared to today's crappy "suspense" piles of $#!+. Paranormal Activity comes to mind: 86 minutes of white trash lying around in bed eating junk food. Talk about "Dull and too long".
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I thought it played out just right. In a relationship, all of these things aren't revealed to you at once - it takes time to see a person for what he/she truly is. The gradual build-up is excellent because as the relationship goes on, it just gets worse and worse.
shareI'll agree with the OP on one thing: this isn't one of Hitchcock's best.
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