Spellbound, Alfred Hitchcock, 1945, USA, Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman, Michael Chekhov.
Hitchcock's return to United States after his collaboration with the British government for which he filmed two propaganda shorts about the French Resistance , meant to meet the contractual obligations owed to David O ' Selznick, the producer who had spent years prior to that país.Y as among the projects it included a film about the psychoanalytic method by which he had been treated to "Hitch" will take a hit term.
Based on a novel by the late 20s and in collaboration with Ben Hecht in the script amen of professional advice E May. Romm , the film part of an interesting premise and presents some ideas routinely present in the work of director such as guilt and / or repression, but despite this and even managed to deploy a significant visual style supported photography George Barnes and crowned by the famous and legendary dream sequence designed by Salvador Dalí (with a disturbing and weird texture), You can be considered a film lower in the whole work of virtuoso director.Su and aging is evident not only in a somewhat naive approach to the treatment of psychoanalysis (may be the first film in clearly do) with an excess of dialogue unusual Hitchcock since this is appreciation of visual and audio resources used routinely, but for some details for the modern viewer is conceivable (see Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman skiing with fancy clothes are amazing, the famed plane subjective final gun unlikely to turning angle for the wrist of the most renowned contortionist is also unlikely although admittedly the brilliant discovery of the fragment in color).
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Notwithstanding the film shows details of the genius of Hitchcock such as symbolism to express feelings of the characters (the plane doors opened) and the building of suspense (the scene razor), and shows the action so characteristic of the director's use of detail or level of subjective point of view (through the glass of milk), all elements that had been working and that would polish their next film, shot with greater creative freedom: Notorious . Remember Also find a singular importance of the love story complicated by mental or sense of duty among the protagonists, as happens in that Notorious or Vertigo, anticipating a significant piece of filmmaking "Hitchcock" in its highest stage maturity achieved in the decade of the 50, but in Remember romance depth does not reach the heights it achieved in other Hitchcock films , especially in the starring Cary Grant - perhaps non-existent chemistry between the two main characters ( Peck - Bergman). Nor does the story of redemption and personal growth of the protagonist male is satisfactorily resolved by your hasty conclusion.
therefore this is a product unequal yet not be the most important highlights of the films of Hitchcock , it is recommended to enjoy, once again, the visual universe here unfolds Master with some details that elevate the quality of the final despite its irregularity film.A Remember commercial success and garnered noteworthy that in the Oscar-winning soundtrack, the work of Miklós Rózsa is used for the first time in film history The Theremin , radio-electric instrument that works through electrical circuits by the approach-withdrawal out of hand but there is no physical contact between the person and player.
