I tried to explain how Alfred Hitchcock uses visuals to state his themes in Strangers on a Train, but I'm happy to report that the students were often ahead of me. There is, for example, the evening scene in which the two main characters discuss a murder. In each shot, at least one of the men is shown with the bars of a gate in front of him, or at least the shadow of those bars. The point is that the threat of prison hangs over the men, the murder and the entire conversation. The minute I started showing that scene in class, at least some of the students seemed to know what was going. What can I say? Very cool!
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