Forget "Frenzy." It's not worth the time.

Well, looks like even William has lost interest in writing about
"Frenzy," Hitchcock's last serious film. I watched it again last
night, but there's little to comment on. The most interesting thing
for me in the entire story was the film's opening Ariel view.
It begins a great distance away from the drawbridge and slowly
descends as the bridge opens and allows it to slowly pass through just
above the water. I initially thought that this was two separate
shots, one by air and one taken from a ship, but it's too seamless to
suggest that anything, other than an aircraft (perhaps a helicopter),
was permitted to pass through the drawbridge. I found this most
unusual.
As for the film, I think it would have been so much more of a
thriller if Hitchcock did not reveal the actual "Necktie" murderer
early on in the story. The scene where others were discussing the
Killer's characteristics in the pub (while the character exhibited the
same traits in front of them) would have meant much more if we could
still imagine that the main character could have been capable of the
crime.

That's the way typical Hitchcock films usually seem to play out,
making this one rather anticlimactic.

Rich Wagner

On Jun 4, 2:23 pm, bigsilent....DeleteThis@aol.com wrote:
> Well, looks like even William has lost interest in writing about
> "Frenzy," Hitchcock's last serious film.

Not so. I've been working on my essays since the essays and my posts
here would cover pretty much the same ground. Should be up this
weekend and then if you all want to excoriate me, we'll all be on the
same page, as it were.

William
www.williamahearn.com