Stangers on a Train Reaction Essay

Strangers on a Train Reaction

Brittany Mckallagat

Movies have never been my thing. I’ve been forced to watch countless amounts of movies with my movie buff friends, and they’ve just never been something I’m into. When forced to sit down and watch a movie I tend to get agitated and angry and yell things at the screen. I think Strangers on a Train is the perfect example of a film where I want to yell at the screen, but of course my yells always fall on deaf ears (or speakers). There’s something about Hitchcock films that make them particularly scary in comparison to other scary or horror films. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what it is, but after examination you realize that the “evil” character or the “bad” character always is someone you could meet in real life. Hitchcocks characters have mental illnesses that are explainable. In the case of Bruno, everything he says to Guy on the train makes perfect sense.

Everyone has mumbled, muttered or at least thought the three words; not I love you, but I’ll kill you. Bruno makes this mere thought that every person in the world