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Marnie (1964)
This film is one of Hitchcock’s more underrated projects. It is also one of his more deeply disturbing films. In the movie, our heroine, Marnie, is a pathological thief and liar. She is also completely sexually frigid and terrified by the color red.
The reasons for her psychological ailments are investigated and eventually discovered by her eventual husband; a man she met while staking out a robbery job. He puts a stop to her robbery plans, finds himself strangely intrigued by her, and blackmails her into marrying him. A lot of Hitchcock fans and critics dismiss this movie is as another one of his weaker, later projects.
In reality this film has everything everyone has come to expect from the man. The story is deep and disturbing, the characters are full, and direction is beautiful. The ending is, however, different from a lot of Hitchcock movies, as it is quite emotional and optimistically open ended.
It’s not easy to watch, but definitely worth the effort.
(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
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