: Hitchcock
Cool film. Not exactly what I expected, and not really a Hitch bio as it was more just about the making of Psycho. Nothing revelatory here, for Hitch fans who know his story, but still fun and interesting.
It was a little too “on the nose” in terms of mimicking Hitch and his contemporaries. In some ways, that made it feel more like a parody than an actual story. The performances were good — especially Anthony Hopkins as Hitch — but many seemed to be acting.
The film also drummed up conflict between Hitch and his wife, Alma, which, though it might have had some historical accuracy, felt exaggerated and tedious. It’s just annoying watching a married couple bicker. I vastly would have preferred more insight into Hitch’s creative side, how and why he made the decisions he did in the movie. There was some of that, but I wanted much, much more. In the end we get a glimpse of what made Hitch tick, but not enough.
I suppose non-Hitchcock fans (or those who don’t know his story) might find the plot light and not that compelling, as most of the film’s conflicts simply evaporate by the end, but as someone who finds Hitch awesome (he’s my all-time favorite director by a huge margin), I enjoyed it. Definitely worth watching.
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