John Nye: belief

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…Is it underrated? It is underrated. I think that, despite its high ranking, it should be rated even further. I mean, look at this movie. On all margins, it’s great. Jimmy Stewart, who is often thought of as this aw-shucks kind of guy is portrayed in a very dark kind of way. It’s a very maudlin take on the average American, as well as being very introspective and very suspenseful. And there are so many things that other directors steal or take from Hitchcock from these pictures. I think Vertigo, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief and North by Northwest are all peerless. And if there’s an underlying political subtext or import of Hitchcock, what do you think that would be? Not what he necessarily intended as his politics, but what’s in the movies in terms of human nature and political man?…

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