Shadow of a Doubt. Hitchcock 1943

In the last lesson we watched a short clip on the shadow of a Doubt and it is another one of the hitchcock films. In this film there are two main characters which are Uncle Charlie which turns out to be the antagonist in the film and the other character is charley who is the protagonist.

           The film starts with happy scenes and rich people dancing to a late classic song, which everyone seems happily dancing to throughout this scene and then its starts to go into a dissolve shoot and the music starts to change, also the scene start to change to a much more dusty and rough place with burnt out cars.

We then jump into a shoot were the camera is zooming into what looks like a hostel, this looks very poor and sleazy. The next part shows uncle charlie laying in a well branded suit while smoking a cigar. This gets the audience very confused as he's in a very expensive suit but staying in a hostel? 

At his point the landlady comes in telling uncle charlie about two mysterious men waiting down stairs, But the men told the lady that they didn't want him to know that they was their as they wanted to surprise charlie.

From this when then realises that the two men are not charlie friends but they was just looking for him. When the landlord lady tells him this he doesn't even flitch but keeps calm at the same time this shows that charlie is also mysterious but cant just put your finger on him. The landlord lady then closes the blind to make the room more dim and dark and as soon as she leaves he starts to get up and this shows he's very sinister and all most like a vampire and he only gets up in the dark. Uncle charlie then starts to drink and after he throws the drink with force on the floor this shows his violent side. 

  He then looks outside to see the two men waiting for him outside, so he makes a quick exit down stairs were he then puts his head down and walks passed them sly as possible. The men didn't realises it was him until he gets half way down the road and they start to walk after him, more like a power walk even. 

  The net shoot comes across to be an overview on to some buildings and it shows charlie walking down an alley and the two men walking through it 5 minutes later but they split as they have lost him and cant seem to find him.

 The two men then meet behind a back fence and the camera then rotates to charlie which he appears to be on top of the building. This shows that he is a very smart man as he has out witted the two men. 

  The next scene goes into a very civilised place and seems more rich and well brought up. The next shoots goes into the window just like uncle charlies scene but this time it goes into his niece Charley's window and she appears to be in the same position as uncle charlie when he was laying on the bed this shows that she's just like her uncle but later on in the film it shows they have different personalities.