On DVD with Lucía at home on Monday, 22 June 2009 at around 22:00.
I’m not as much a fan of Hitchcock as I used to be. I still like his films, and The Man Who Knew Too Much is no exception. There is one scene when Doris Day finds out her son has been kidnapped and her husband has drugged her (to prevent a heart attack? to prevent her from doing something stupid?)—it’s a dramatic moment that has a raw emotional power that I’ve never seen before in a Hitchcock film (more like something out of Douglas Sirk).
I don’t remember the original version of the film too well, though Lucía just saw it recently.
The story overall isn’t so interesting, but the execution is so nice that it’s just easy to go along for the ride, even though so many of Hitchcock’s masterful moments of suspense seem kind of transparent and a little silly now.
Jimmy Stewart’s character, and the decisions he makes throughout the film are probably the most interesting part of the film, in retrospect. His character is very enigmatic, and Jimmy Stewart really seems to play that up a good deal in his performance.
Jun-Dai: B
Lucía: B
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