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8/2/2025, 11:30:04 PM
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I liked it but yeah, it's extremely alien to both directors's preoccupations. One must remember that Robert Bloch was in H.P. Lovecraft's literary harem as a teenager and that coloured the remainder of his career. I can see The 'Cock looking at the occult and satanism stuff in the novel and immediately being like, "Nope." I remember Bloch wrote an episode of Star Trek where Scotty got possessed by a cosmic demon and stabbed a nightclub dancer to death. Truffaut sort of makes movie versions of Beatles records so I can see him hating it. Though, Hitchcock was definitely a pervert and sadist, just completely in denial... Which perhaps can account for the bifocal nature of his films, i.e. "genre frame story that the casual viewer can enjoy" and the "BABY WANTS TO FUCK" narrative that's present when you scratch away the surface. Notorious has only the flimsiest pretence of being a spy thriller, it's truly a cucking and sexual jealousy movie.
I liked it but yeah, it's extremely alien to both directors's preoccupations. One must remember that Robert Bloch was in H.P. Lovecraft's literary harem as a teenager and that coloured the remainder of his career. I can see The 'Cock looking at the occult and satanism stuff in the novel and immediately being like, "Nope." I remember Bloch wrote an episode of Star Trek where Scotty got possessed by a cosmic demon and stabbed a nightclub dancer to death. Truffaut sort of makes movie versions of Beatles records so I can see him hating it. Though, Hitchcock was definitely a pervert and sadist, just completely in denial... Which perhaps can account for the bifocal nature of his films, i.e. "genre frame story that the casual viewer can enjoy" and the "BABY WANTS TO FUCK" narrative that's present when you scratch away the surface. Notorious has only the flimsiest pretence of being a spy thriller, it's truly a cucking and sexual jealousy movie.
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