I’ve been watching a lot of Alfred Hitchcock movies lately. They’re nothing like I imagined them to be. There seems to be a lot of reoccurring themes too. Like the dilemma of saving one life versus many, especially when the “one” life is the one you know and love personally… and the many are just nameless faceless masses.
He is a master of suspense though. Giving you an indication of what is going to happen very early on, and then dragging it out with emotional close ups. There are very good examples of that in both “Sabotage” and “Secret Agent”. “Secret Agent” is particularly stomach-turning, especially in the later knowledge that they got the wrong man.
