Encounter 4 - Adventure and the Individual

The second half of the 1950s is for Hitchcock the one of the challenge with himself through three (im)possible films: in the remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) he fine-tunes the mechanisms of suspense and surprise (in the scene of the eardrum blowing); in Vertigo (1958) he pushes on narrative forms as (distorted) geometries of the gaze; in North by Northwest (1959) the plot is a gigantic, demented pretext and the use of images is designed for effect and not verisimilitude.