Perfect cast and a good story

A Major Disappointment

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

This week I watched Rope (1948). This movie is a crime drama mystery that lived up to its genre. I believe the point of this film was three-sided. I think it served to point out that there are people who exist in the world who can be typified as monsters. I think it also served to remind us to have a realistic perspective in regards to humanity and I think it also made the point that a leader should seriously consider the implications behind his or her teachings and shared thought processes. I think that the story demonstrated two different perspectives. The first perspective was that of the world through the eyes of a monster and then of that through the eyes of a human. I personally did not like the film as I don't like grim murder based stories, but if that's the kind of thing that you enjoy watching then it was a good film. The most unnerving part about the editing in this film had more to do with the shot style. If it weren't for the shaky and strange movement in the shots then I don't think that the editing would be too noticeable. However, certain points of the movie did not feel fluid to me. Perhaps the oddity of the visual dynamic was intentional and if that's the case then that was definitely effective. The plot was riveting and the payoff was better than I had anticipated. All in all this was a good film to learn from, but I wouldn't watch it again.

To say about a Hitchcock film it is impessive represents normal thing. but "Rope" is more than impressive. impecable performances, clouds of words, tension, an admirable James Steward and the great work of John Dall and Farley Granger. more than a remarkable film, it is a chess game. and this does it a perfect social and psychological fresco. because its subject is simple and large, a puzzle from love, Nietzsche/ Raskolnikov an basic values of humanity. a film like a warning, after 70 years more significant . because it gives, in the soliloquy of Rupert, the precise map of our society.

Oldies were all about the script and the lines the actors say. No special effects, minimal gore, just plain old suspense, intellectual conversations and the details. This especially refers to the crime stories of the 1950s and 1960s and among them, the ones that made Alfred Hitchcock into one of the greatest film directors of all times. „Rope" is one of the best situation thrillers placed inside a single room during its entire course. Two murderers who are inviting friends to a party just to serve them on a improvised casket just so they can indulge their urge to rejoice their successful endeavor is just a great concept as a standalone, but when joined by some meticulous dialogues and great acting (Stewart), the viewer gets a memorable movie experience that will echo in the cinematographic eternity. „Rope" is one of the best movies Alfred Hitchcock made and one of the best murder mysteries ever.

Spoilers. Observations. Opinions.Saw it for Constance Collier. She was an early twentieth renowned stage actress who was quite nice looking in those days. I just adore actresses and actors from turn of the twentieth century stage work.In this film, she portrays dowager appearing aunt to David. I thought she would be at the end of the film, figuring out the crime along with Jimmy Stewart -- two acting heavyweights if there ever were such.I was disappointed that she left the scene earlier. During her time in the film, however, she did a great job with her astrology and palm reading. I thought she was going to psych Farley Granger out and get him to tell her everything that happened.Go Jimmy! Come up those stairs with the police. Alas, that did not happen. Jimmy had seen the DK hat, and he decided to sleuth out the culprits.Hitchcock has built the suspense. I liked the Technicolor, even though some complain of its primitiveness. It was spectacular. I will watch it again for the Hitchcock cameo appearances.John Dall portrayed another bad guy in the film, The Corn is Green, starring Bette Davis as his encouraging schoolteacher. In it, he is a backward, illiterate coal mining teenager who grudgingly attends her school. He is insolent and verbally abusive. He is filthy, and has ragged clothes. Later, he cleans up and learns some manners. He is selected to attend an exclusive school elsewhere, because of his mental abilities. I portrayed Miss Moffatt, the teacher, in a play.Dall in Rope portrayed smarmy, wealthy, snooty and calculating Brandon. Brandon is a brat used to getting his own way. He tries to act superior and overpowering.Farley Granger here portrays a nice, dutiful young man who gets roped, pun, into helping with the dastardly crime. He does very good drunk scenes, and his nervousness and panicky scenes are done to perfection.The young woman is very beautiful. The maid/housekeeper is very dutiful, and I was hoped that she, also, would be part of the detection of the crime.Sir Cedric Hardwicke is always excellent. Here, he is intelligent and charming; he has class and good bearing. He shows nervousness about his missing son.