Reddering is a 1956 hitchcock film.
Hitchcock is a director with a variety of styles, he has just in a previous film "Strange Corpse Case", in an absurd form, showing a group of obviously ill-informed small town residents in a strange situation in dealing with a sudden death, and then in the next filming of "Justice", in a meticulous documentary style, methodically showing a real-life survival dilemma that is not unfamiliar in real life.
In "Redress of Grievances", there is no Hitchcock-style death gimmick, no suspense of who is the murderer, and there is no handsome man and beautiful woman's style, it is completely a realistic documentary method, presenting a flying disaster-style grievance, and the harmful ripples stirred up in ordinary life.
As an audience, we see too many murders and murders in the camera, but we always feel that these black elements are too far away from us, but they allow us to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, watch the thrilling on the screen, and will not be frightened by the shadow of the sword and light on the screen to break our souls and break our guts.
However, Hitchcock tells us in "Redress" that even without the basic black spooky elements of his usual films, the slightest grievance will bring fatal damage to life.
"Redress of Grievances" can be called a fable in Hitchcock's films, telling that there is an outlier in the normalization of the falsehood of the films he created, that is, the truth embodied in "Redress" is the true taste of life.
At the same time, "Redress" has also become Hitchcock's self-comparison of his films, and the film thriller he deliberately created comes from a trivial setback in life, and once this setback is magnified into the movie, it is necessary to use an amplifier to amplify hundreds of millions of times to achieve the degree and height of the attraction that makes the audience sigh, and the work he does is this kind of processing engineering and process that amplifies the shadows of life into the movie.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >, the story mode of "Justice": the suspenseful journey of an innocent person involved in an unjust case</h1>
There are two ways of expressing suspense: one is that the audience knows the answer, the characters in the movie do not know, at this time, the audience is worried about the fate of the characters, resulting in suspense; the other is that the audience and the characters in the movie do not know what the real truth is, resulting in a sense of confusion, which will also produce suspense. Most of the works that solve the theme are set up in this kind of structure.
Hitchcock's secret to creating suspense is precisely different, he generally chooses the first method, telling the audience the result, and letting the characters in the play do not know the truth, so that the audience will be entangled in the fate of the characters in the play. In fact, Hitchcock uses such a suspenseful setting to show his human nature and the secret of people's hearts.
In "Redress of Grievances", he uses the second method, that is, to let the audience not know the truth like the characters in the play, but to feel the unexpected doom with the characters in the play. However, it is interesting that even in such a situation, Hitchcock did not give the policeman who was tasked with solving the mystery of doom more opportunities to reason logically, which also formed the Crack of Hitchcock's films, where there is suspense but there is no mystery.
It can be said that the search for the truth through logical reasoning is precisely not what Hitchcock is interested in. He often directly lets the characters tell the truth on their own, and even, he will tell the truth and the truth through the perspective of God in the movie, so the author feels that the police and detectives in Hitchcock's films are mentally retarded and do nothing, including the famous "Rear Window", which is not through the meticulous reasoning method to clarify the real murder, but it is completely blind cat bumping into a dead mouse, a murder that should have been obscured by curtains, but appeared in the front window like a movie screen. The logical reasoning in "Rear Window" is indeed nothing, disappointing, and its only strength is that Hitchcock shows the faces of beings in the real life activated by the murder through this film.
From the beginning to the end, "Redress of Grievances" is a flat and straightforward introduction to the sudden reversal of fate encountered by the protagonist Christopher. When he went to the insurance company to do business, he was identified by the salesman as the murderer of the robbery with a gun.
In this way, he was soon arrested and put under scrutiny at the police station. Hitchcock used a different narrative approach than his previous films. In the past Hitchcock films, he was highly refined, streamlined, and the content he ingested in his films was the part he deliberately and carefully pushed to the audience, to a large extent, Hitchcock's films were not a pure reality, but a dramatic interpretation of the truth, and the stage cavity and virtual taste were the tone that always lingered in Hitchcock's films.
But in "Justice", Hitchcock completely abandons this theatrical aesthetic feature of his previous films, but completely restores the original documentary method, redundant and complicated to explain the protagonist's entry into the police station to be censored, parole on bail for his family, until he himself goes to find witnesses and a series of realistic experiences, these experiences, the film is in a documentary and tireless way, the whole process is displayed in front of the audience.
It is here that It shows Hitchcock's realism to express the foundation and interest of life, so it cannot be ignored here that Hitchcock was influenced by European neorealist films, and it can be seen that Hitchcock has been constantly seeking self-change and breakthrough, so that his films have both a unified style and contain different endogenous elements. For example, "The Story of Grievances" and the previous film "Strange Corpse Case" completely adopt a different narrative approach, "Strange Corpse Case" is not serious at all, while "Redress" is serious to a little sinister and terrible degree, Hitchcock faithfully shows that the main theme of life can only be no miracles, no accidents, no superhuman only realistic side.
When the protagonist of "The Record of Justice" is trapped in a dead knot and cannot find a reason for his own exoneration, the film opens up in a flat way, starts another narrative, and confesses a case of daring to break into the camera: a thief who is extremely similar to the protagonist's clothing and appearance, grabs a gun and robs a supermarket, is arrested and captured, so that the protagonist's grievances disappear and can be clarified.
It can be seen that all the suspense in the movie collapses and disintegrates in this instant, and the truth also comes into being and falls into the dust. The film completely abandons an unexpected ending, and its logic is simple enough to be simplistic, that is, the real murderer is caught, so the wronged victim can also sweep away the haze on his body and return to normalcy. Throughout the movie, we can see that an ordinary person in life is involved in a very important event for accidental reasons, resulting in a change of fate.
In "The Book of Grievances", Hitchcock is very obvious to see a humble ordinary man in life, but he is wrong and wrong, involved in a society or the trend of the times that he cannot bear the weight of, and he is doomed to be like a floating tree, unable to control the direction of his own destiny. This may be the tragic existence of a life. In Hitchcock's capture of the deadlock, we see Hitchcock in a different way to show this typical existence of the impermanence of life.
In "Catch the Dead", a member of a doctor's family of three, going out on a trip, but the ghost is involved in a transnational espionage case, this model, in Hollywood movies, has a very large common idea family, almost every year there is such a model of the film continues to concoct. Hitchcock is certainly not the initiator of this type, but he obviously made this model radiant and thought-provoking, which is why Hitchcock will always tenaciously show his enlightening pioneering significance in the contemporary film world, including his film techniques, such as the "one shot to the end" technique, which can be revived today, which has shocked the film industry in "1917", and at the same time, his film model will also make a comeback in today's film industry, with countless imitators and successors.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > II. Psychic Dialysis of the Book of Grievances: The pressure of society makes even the slightest bit of an individual powerless to resist</h1>
The biggest shock in "Redress of Grievances" is that a wronged, the harm to the hero can still be resisted, and his wife, but unable to withstand the strong force passed by her husband, resulting in strong psychological fluctuations, showing difficulty sleeping, tea and dinner, and even serious enough to fall into the abyss of self-blame, comfort to her husband, a violent counterattack, and finally, she had to go to the psychiatrist, was identified as insane, and was admitted to the hospital.
Until her husband's grievances washed snow, she was still indifferent in the ward, and her husband advised her to go home and return to a normal life, but she had no reaction, thinking that although her husband's grievances were solved, but it had nothing to do with it, she fell deeply into the trap of stubborn self-harm, it was difficult to forgive herself, thinking that it was her own sake, which led to her husband entering the insurance company, which triggered a series of grievances.
In fact, from the situation explained in the film, the hero was wronged, and did not receive any inhuman treatment in the police station, and later after bail, he has been trying his best to wash himself and get rid of his crimes, and later found a lawyer, which can be said to be a chance of winning, it seems that the protagonist experienced nothing more than a small event without sudden waves, but it is these seemingly trivial small events that make the hero's wife mentally unbearable, and gradually begin to fall into a strange circle out of control.
The authenticity and profundity of the film is also here. Under normal circumstances, Hitchcock movies will always show bizarre strange cases, strange cases, in those sword-rattling human fights, bringing us a rare thrill in life, but there are few people who are not psychologically strong, in the face of these strange accidents, mental collapse, as if after experiencing those thrills of the world, people can do the skin and flesh unharmed, but also can make the soul unscathed.
Is that actually the case? Hitchcock was keenly aware that this was not the case. The harsh events in the movie will be incomparably lethal to people in reality.
This is the image on the screen and reality is far away from the distance, "Justice" is with such a bland story, tell us, don't look at the thrilling wonders that Hitchcock has been making, there are thrilling renovations on the screen, but as long as there is a little penetrating into our real life, it will be like an unbearable weight, weighing us down.
In this way, "Redress" is like a cutscene in the long axis of Hitchcock's films, when Hitchcock continuously creates those endless murders, murders, and hunting and killing black elements, he is busy and leisurely using a loose and unstructured film such as "Redress" to show the audience a corner of life, as if to tell the audience that any bit of danger is full of branches and ends, once it is exposed in life, it is often the simplest state, which can make us fall into the terrible abyss of eternal disaster.
"The Record of Grievances" also shows that the legendary criticism of the false, in reality, is the top of Tarzan, no one can bear it.
From this point of view, "The Story of Justice" is like a wake-up call, telling us that those thrilling screen dramas and heroic thrills can only play themselves in the closed system of the screen, once in real life, even if there is a little legendary movie operation, it is enough to make people physically and mentally exhausted, shaped and bone-crushing, life is better than death.
The tragedy of the wife in "Redress" is precisely because it is plain to the truth, but it gives people a stronger impression. The subtitles of the film finally tell us that after two years of the protagonist's wife, her spirit returned to normal and walked out of the hospital, but this recovery process is not what Hitchcock wants to tell people, and he tells people in a loud voice in "Justice" that even a little twist and turn and danger in life will bring fatal damage and poison to people's hearts.
Therefore, if the husband in "Redress" conveys a kind of external pressure of grievances and bears the pulse of a story, then the psychological harm of the wife is the real ink point and foothold in this movie, and it is also Hitchcock's profound significance.
It can be said that in all Hitchcock films, he has always been concerned with the changes in human psychology, the perspective is the subtleties of human nature, the purpose of suspense, and finally import and lead to the secret realm of people's hearts. This is precisely why Hitchcock films have been so popular.
"Redress of Grievances" can see this more vividly. A case, it has no intention of solving its own bizarre and final solution, it is more concerned with the psychological delay of this event. "Redress" has the smallest narrative, but it is very "Hitchcock".
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, the countervailing way of "Redress": human truth is the best way to resist pressure</h1>
"Redress of Grievances" tells a gloomy case, showing a heart injury, according to the reason, the whole movie will be cloudy, the style is gray, and people are afraid to avoid it.
However, under all these styles, "The Book of Justice" is just filled with a kind of human warmth and light. In all Hitchcock films, we have felt this kind of human confidence and warmth.
So, how did Hitchcock get to this point?
In "The Book of Justice", the author deliberately emphasizes the harmony and warmth of his life when portraying the male protagonist's family, in the picture provided by the camera, we can see that he is very filial to his elderly parents, and he is also very caring for the two children, the film uses a lot of details to explain the daily life of the children, on this basis, showing a father's meticulous and deep affection for the children. A large number of life details portray the role of the hero as the head of the family in the family.
At the same time, "The Record of Seeking Grievances" also made a strong performance of the deep love between husband and wife. The origin of an unjust case in the movie is the husband's love for his wife. In the context of the grievances provided in the film, it is the wife who has a dental disease and must undergo surgery, and this small medical expense makes the husband have to go into the insurance company with the intention of mortgageing a rescue fund.
It is precisely because he comes to the insurance company and is recognized by the agent as the main culprit in a previous robbery, so that the protagonist is arrested as a suspect and put into the police station.
There was no connection between the wife's illness and the wrongs she had suffered, but the wife considered herself to be the culprit of her husband's imprisonment, which led to psychological imbalances, mental impairment, and was admitted to the hospital for further treatment.
A family is in danger of falling apart, but even in such circumstances, the husband has not lost his responsibility to his wife and has been trying to pull her back to normal. As soon as he had the first news of the clearing of his grievances, he first came to his wife who was living in the hospital room, intending to pull her from the edge of insanity back to real life, but he encountered the indifferent response of his wife who was deeply in a state of mental imbalance. From the disappointed look in the husband's eyes, we can feel the pain in his heart and the concern for his wife. The true expression of this ordinary life has been revealed here.
In the same way, when the husband is caught in prison, the wife is also anxious, running around for the innocence of the husband, and her mental disorder is also a kind of radical manifestation of her love for her husband, the deeper the love, the more the wound is cut, in the whole movie, we can see that Hitchcock always grasps the emotional interaction of the characters, truly showing the sincerity of a couple facing each other when the big disaster is approaching, but because of the spiritual collapse of one of the members, this true feeling is more pure like gold.
The wife's psychotic demon is precisely the manifestation of the innocence of her love, and it is for the sake of love that it leads to her schizophrenia. It can be said that the whole movie shows hurt, but it expresses a sincere ode to love.
Hitchcock also used this film to illustrate the pressure of society and the plight of small people who are unable to return to heaven, which will make individual lives face the difficulties of survival, but what resists all this is the true feelings of the human world. The true interaction between three generations shown in the film is so perfect that it is a rare scene in Hitchcock's films.
Hitchcock's such a big fanfare and tireless performance of parental love, husband and wife love, and family love is used to illustrate the power of this love, which is enough to dissolve the huge pressure of life unexpectedly, in this sense, Hitchcock also borrowed his film, self-disclosure and comparison of the power of his film, is to help people overcome all kinds of tribulations and difficulties in real life.
This is perhaps why Hitchcock films are still able to give people spiritual comfort to this day.