Hitchcock notes 13/6/16
Strangers on a train
- Perspective from the front of the train
- Many legs walking around sitting
- You see legs before you see people
- Perspective shifts between tennis player and bruno
- Introduced to the character Anne from the get go through the use of the lighter
- Bruno is sitting below the tennis player, shows the tennis player has more of a position in society than he does
- Bruno sits up higher than the tennis player "wanna hear my idea for a perfect murder" shows he has more power
- Hitchcocks example of a perfect crime
- Mirium is a double crosser she cons the tennis player out of money and then says that she isn't going to get a divorce.
- Mirium is also pregnant and despite the fact that it isn't guy's baby she will pretend it is if guy doesn't want a divorce
- The train in the background grows louder and louder as Guy gets more and more angry
- Bruno is mentally unstable you can see the facial expressions in the differences in perspective between guy and his mother as well as their exchanged dialogue
- The dramatic abstract painting of Bruno's father demonstrates how Bruno feels about him before the character is even revealed
- Shadows reveal that one character is annoying Marion
- Extremely dark low key lighting
- The fire is lit and Marion is killed in slow suspense
- Her death is extremely slow as she is slowly suffocated
- Shown in the mirror they weren't allowed to show real death but it technically isn't as it is reflected in the mirror