Encounter 2 - The Great Turning Point

When he arrived in America, Hitchcock found himself in a different context, but he immediately succeeded in creating the perfect balance between authorship and the Studio-system: thanks to the detective story as a genre but also as a world-view, he broke the Hollywood principle of the illusion of reality. In Rebecca the First Wife (1940) he experiments with the importance of obsession in narrative construction. In The Suspect (1941), the ambiguity of the staging moves on from the distorted subjective and the happy ending that does not entirely dissolve the situation. In I Will Save You (1945) dreams acquire a plastic reality thanks to the recovery of avant-garde effects. In Rope (1948) the use of the piano-sequence experiments with the unity of place in the unity of time.