Thread:Gargoyle One/@comment-31377280-20180521011057/@comment-31377280-20180522160647

I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Yes, the acting is impeccable; so much effort went into the timing and delivery of those long takes. Really reminds me of watching a stage play. Lots of great attention to detail, too, like how the strained conversation at the piano is accompanied by the music speeding up and distant sirens in the background. Very interesting thematically, too; Rupert (the cynical mentor to the two leads) can be seen as a representation of any number of late nineteenth-century/early twientieth-century philosophies (such as elitism, Marxisim, Darwinisim, et cetera) that promote societal power as the defining trait of a human, and he must wrestle with whether his beliefs inherently lead to the depreciation of human life.

Believe it or not, this isn't even close to one of Hitchcock's best or most tense, but "Rope" still provides a wonderful time and gets better with each revisit.