Hitchcock's Suspense Stories The Third Kind of Magic

Author: Wang Qiang
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Publish Date: 1999-01-01
Features: "The Master of Suspense," Alfred Hitchcock, is a film artist who delves deeply into the human psyche. His exploration of the human hidden inner world is unprecedented. Hitchcock has a profound understanding of the anxieties of modern people, and through his compelling plot arrangements, he thoroughly analyzes the guilt, restlessness, anxiety, desires, and hatred of modern people, depicting the absurdity and chaos of modern society, perfectly blending popular culture and philosophy, and is renowned as the "Freud of the film industry." Hitchcock's works offer vast interpretive space. Their rich implications make reading or watching his works a great pleasure. What is suspense? Hitchcock once gave a famous definition of suspense: If you want to show a group of people playing cards around a table and then suddenly an explosion occurs, you can only shoot a very stiff scene of being startled after the explosion. On the other hand, although you are showing the same scene, if you show the bomb under the table before the card game begins, you create suspense and engage the audience's attention. In fact, Hitchcock's works are not just appealing through suspense; their depth is far greater.