Sunday, September 24, 2006

Frenzy by. Alfred Hitchcock


This is one of Alfred Hitchcock's last movies he created, and he kept his well known way of using his skills to the end.

Plot and stand outs: The story takes place in England and begins with a dead girl with a neck tie around her neck washing up on a shore near a museum. Then cuts directly to were we meet the main character, Richard, where the story leads right off into a conflict. This conflict is the fact that Richard is an alcoholic working in a pub, after learning this we find out that his boss has accused him of stealing liquor and has fired him. After taking a small stop at a friend's fruit stand and getting a few grapes and horse betting tips. He then makes his way to his ex- wife's office building to discuss his problem, and winds up having diner with her. After diner he spends the night in a poor house where a bum tries to steal some money off of him that he did not know he had. The next morning he discovers he is wanted for murder as the neck tie killer for killing his wife, because he is seen last at his wife's office. So Richard hooks up with his girlfriend, running and hiding through the streets of England. Richard then tells his girlfriend to get her stuff packed because they could go to France to hide, but on her return to retrieve her stuff she is greeted by the true neck tie killer and brought to his apartment where she too is raped and murdered. The next day Richard discovers that he is wanted for another murder that he did not do. After this he tries to escape what he has not done yet again, but is shortly apprehended at his friend's house. So I leave you there does he receive his revenge or does he die in jail. Now I believe Alfred Hitchcock truly went down in a blaze of bullets with this movie, but I felt it had a very weak ending for being a Hitchcock and that really upset me. See the movie ends with the killer walking in on the inspector and Robert and ends right there. I truly felt this ending really did not bring any justice to the movies. One way it could have brought justice is by adding a fight scene with the murder and Robert, or a chase scene through the streets ending with the murder being shot or struck by a vehicle. Now what would have really brought some justice is some how the murder is too strangled by a neck tie mysteriously, this would've added a twist to the ending.

2 Comments:

Blogger DONALD said...

The ending leaves us with the commiting murder without doing so, as his act is upon a corpse. The duality of the two main characters is reflected by such Hitchcock films as Strangers on a Train, Rope, Vertigo, etc. The film leaves us with the detective and two murderers -- or two sides of a personality, if one wishes.

I think retribution with a neck tie would be pedestrian, and who would be the murderer?

Perhaps viewing the film on different levels than the single one you present would be enlightening.

11:23 PM  
Blogger DONALD said...

Left out "leaves us with the wrong man committing..."

11:26 PM  

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