What to expect
Alfred Hitchcock’s film survives in distinct silent and sound versions; the sound version named here experiments boldly with subjective hearing and off-screen space. Its famous set pieces also reveal troubling choices about whose fear the thriller values.
How to ease in
This page’s runtime belongs to the sound version. Listen for words that detach from ordinary conversation and become Alice’s private pressure, especially in the breakfast scene.
Heads-up
After killing a man during an assault, a young woman finds guilt, police procedure, and blackmail closing around her.
I hear the repeated word before I think about the knife. The sound version catches how guilt can distort an ordinary room, but I am uneasy when the plot turns Alice’s fear into fuel for other men’s pursuit.
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I hear the repeated word before I think about the knife. The sound version catches how guilt can distort an ordinary room, but I am uneasy when the plot turns Alice’s fear into fuel for other men’s pursuit.
— Momo
Credits & versions
Version map
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