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After three tries, the Bruins finally sat ready at the start but drifted into a rope that snagged its rudder...
...spent that Friday afternoon wondering around downtown Duluth, waiting for the evening news. Those few hours of innocence were the last I would spend that weekend without looking behind my back every few minutes for the mob. And its rope...
...cast does an excellent job of conveying Hitchcock's message that in the isolating circumstances of modern society ideas can easily flourish into ideologies, dangerously ripe for adoption by a disturbed individual. In Rope, the philosophy of an intellectual, Rupert Cadell (Mark Dolan), that the privileged few have the right to commit murder is adopted up by the deeply emotionally and intellectually insecure Brandon (Cyres Sanal). Brandon assuming he is one of the privileged few, sets out to test Rupert's philosophy by attempting to carry off the perfect murder. He kills a Harvard graduate (David) and has a party...
...advocacy of his ideology of the right to murder makes it inevitable that Rupert will suspect he has sired, more than an academic disciple. After inducing Susan to break down for the fifth time in the party--this time by confronting her with the murder weapon (a piece of rope)--Rupert fires two shots in the air--summoning the police and repatriating Brandon's diseased mind with reality...
Written by Hitchcock in the '40s, Rope's use of Rupert's superman ideology makes the play a powerful parallel to Hitler's frighteningly effective use of racist and anti-Semitic propaganda. In both case, immature minds grasped on perverse ideologies, which fueled by intense emotional needs, culminated in disaster...