Just watched it and it definitely lives up to the hype, one of the best I have seen. Hitchcock made it clear what he wanted the audience to see, for example when Judy finally completed her transformation to Madeline and appeared out of the bathroom with the ghostly green light on her. That is just one of many examples. I think today directors try too hard hide their symbolism or whatever they are trying to convey, they should use this as an example to the fact that not everyone in the audience is a hardcore film critic or someone who analyzes everything in detail, and make it more clear. Also, the thought processes for the character are clearly shown, it just flowed so smoothly.
The one thing I found strange though is the hotel scene where Judy is in the "corner room" and Scotty goes up to investigate. The woman says the room key was never taken and she was never there. This was a red herring to try and make us feel like she is actually a ghost, but I think it skipped a little bit of logic because I don't know why she would go through whatever secret door she had, there is no reason to just not go through the front other than to make us think she is a ghost. She didn't care about making Scotty think she is a ghost because later she just says it is like the dead girl is in her mind, not an actual ghost possessing her and giving her ghostly powers. That was my only criticism though, although I might be missing something. I thought it was great how he went the ghost angle though, because I kept telling myself there is an explanation to what is happening, but the mystery and movies around ghosts makes you second guess that and say: Is she really possessed? Also, Scotty's dream sequence was crazy and not fun to watch in the dark.
Also, at the end, was Scotty going to jump?
Submitted May 07, 2018 at 09:01AM by PlasticThreshold https://ift.tt/2rnmPCi
