Hitchcocks Films Revisited - Summary [DRAFT]

Pages 116 - 117 of the article comment on how Hitchcock often breaks audience expectations within his film through the usage of shocking twists within the narrative. The example given says how shock was achieved when Madeleine is killed off halfway through the film, this isn't the only time Hitchcock has chosen to kill off heroines so suddenly as the same thing occurs in Psycho. This writer also offers some analysis for readers, in it Robin Wood suggests that "we are so thoroughly identified with scottie that we share in his shock".  New outlooks on the symbolism of the nightmare sequence are also brought to light here as Robin suggests that this sequence was used by Hitchcock to hit at the outcome of the film: in it Scotties subconscious generates an image of a flower, however as the nightmare progresses it slowly becomes a paper flower. This suggests to the audience that the Madeleine is a fraud and is "fake".