Hitchcock's Psycho - Q & A
...Hitchcock is that he is staunchly misogynisticand often when one says this, the movies Psycho and Frenzy are cited for their scenes of female-oriented violencehe actually, in his majority of films, expresses empathy and compassion towards women, while giving a "sharp critique of the male psyche". He goes even further, to convey the point that the notorious scenes from the two aforementioned movies may have jaded us all to the facts that he isn't really that misogynistic after all.
2. Jeff, for some reason or another of which we have no knowledge, has been left with a slightly cynical view of women. As a result, he cannot help but view Lisa Fremont as a pretty face that is fundamentally lacking what he thinks are the necessary qualities of his ideal woman. As he says, he doesn't want a beauty queen, he wants a woman who will stick with him for the long run. I think that although he has the cynical view of woman he knows deep down that she will love him when he needs her and hisin my opinionflimsy and transparent rejections of her in the middle of the movie are no more than a test of her devotion.
3. Fawell identifies in the four movies an principal thread of a man who does not at first recognize a woman's true worth until his rejection of her shows to him "the true measure of her worth", as well as bringing to light the potential ramifications of placing blame where it need not go. Fawell also refers to this theme as the only theme that Hitchcock could portray with sincerity, implying there was an underlying emotional link that allowed him to place emotional honesty in his films.
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("I always believe of following the advice of the playwright Sardou: Torture the women'
the trouble today is that we don't torture women enough.")
(It is true that women suffer in Hitchcock's films but he reserves his most withering judgment for men.)
I think...
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