The common denominator for the vast majority of these pictures is their association with the thriller genre. This association goes without saying, as almost every film has something to do with criminal activity, most often murder. Another common element is the romance depicted in the storylines. Like many a film from the Golden Age and later, Hitchcock`s films used romance as a very important element to the plots. Performers such as Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, James Stewart, Kim Novak, Grace Kelly and others were called upon to play these romantic parts, which give the films an exterior appearance of larger-than-life romance, just as in many other pictures. However, what is

We all know the famous murder plot; Stewart`s belief that he has witnessed a murder while spying on his neighbours through the window. But the film also details the revelation that, yes, he and Kelly are very suited for each other, because of how they behave during the progress of the film. They become investigators, of a sort, conspiring to piece together the clues, and to discover, like all nosy people, what really happened in that mild-mannered salesman`s apartment. They treat their sneaky doings almost like a game; Kelly, in particular, seems positively giddy, especially when she is able to break into the suspect`s apartment, and hunt for clues. The result is not just a murder mystery, and a commentary on voyeurism, but also a humourously macabre study of the compatibility of romantic partners, and, like the other Hitchcock works, the implication that romance exists only when sinister, and occasionally sadistic, elements are at play.

Study at least a few of Hitchcock`s major pictures and you will find that, in most cases, psychological and physical bondage, as well as other sinister attributes, are defining features of the depicted romances. Certainly, the best examples of this are Notorious and Vertigo, two fairly different types of films, but with a similar bent towa

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