film review ROPE

The film rope is a one talk movie, meaning that the whole entire movie is set in the same scene. it is a master of suspense and puts the audience on there seat for the entire film waiting for the main point of interest, which was the body that the two men strangled in the very fist scene to be found by the other characters that were there. 

The movie was based on a play which was inspired by Leopold-Loeb murder case. “Rope” remains one of the most interesting experiments ever attempted by a major director working with big box-office names" (Ebert:1984). 

The film also talks about homosexuality in a weird way as it can be seen for the whole entire film, but it is obvious and is not mentioned in the film but is seen in some of the clips of just the two men. "Under cover of these blackouts, two things are hidden. One is the popularity  of gay male sex, whose sexual use general opinions are considered. showing the element in defining the true homosexual. The script didn’t link the word with the body wound of irreducible symbolic importance"(Miller:2013). Its not very obvious in the film but if you read up on it and or watch the film a few more times it might be clearer to see the small messages that relate to homosexuality. 

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Hitchcock has a way of showing the audience everything that is going on and shows them the problem straight away. this puts tension on the audience and makes you want to shout at the screen, where the problem is. an example of this, is when there is a bomb placed in the scene and you see the person doing it but you haven't any power to stop it you just hope that someone will spot it and disarm it in time before the person who placed and armed to bomb gets away from it. this is evident in this film and Hitchcock uses it very well  "he tortures the audience, but he is also parading his own cleverness, and like Brandon, on some level he wants to be found out. There are cuts in the film: and you only notice them if you're watching the direction rather than the story. Once you've spotted one, you'll want to know why it's there, you're always thinking about Hitchcock, and the way he uses technical angels." (Hutchinson: 2012)

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Illustrations 
figure 1 J Bovberg, (2012), Rope Scene: http://www.jasonbovberg.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Rope2.jpg

figure 2 Gabrielle Golenda , (2012), Books: http://i0.wp.com/posturemag.com/online/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/booksandrope.jpg

Bibliography   
Ebert Roger (1984)  Roger Ebert Review
 http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rope-1948

Miller, D.A.. “Anal Rope.” Representations 32 (1990): 114-131. JSTOR. Web. 19 June 2013.

 Hutchinson Pamela (2012) The Guardian
 https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2012/jul/27/my-favourite-hitchcock-rope