Rope

Rope - An Alfred Hitchcock classic, though it's not one of his most popular movies I still consider it one of his bests.  I believe that Rope is one of Hitchcock's more creative movies. The plot is very Hitchcockian, the two main characters murder a colleague just because the can... just to see if they can pull it off. One of the main characters is slightly more... twisted than the other and decides to throw a party. He decides to have the food served off of a chest - the chest where the dead body is being stored. He's all doing this for fun.

Where Hitchcock gets creative is the set. The camera never leaves one apartment. The whole movie takes place in a small apartment with the total of two or three rooms.  I didn't realize that the movie had taken place all in one apartment until I was reading about the movie. It amazed me! A similar movie to Rope is Hitchcock's Rear Window. That movie, like Rope, doesn't really involve a whole lot of locations.  The main character never leaves his small, one room apartment.  Yet through the other characters the story leaves the apartment... in a way.

As an added bonus, Jimmy Stewart says one of my favorite lines of the movie, his career, of any movie ever. Here it is! Watch it!!

Also, during this clip for the first time in the entire movie the outside world is heard. You've been stuck inside the apartment for the entire movie, you almost forget about their being a society. When Jimmy Stewart proclaims that society is going to kill the murderers, you are reminded that there is an outside world. When he opens up the window and shoots the gun you begin to hear voices form the outside world. It's an odd feeling... to realize that you've been in the inside the entire movie and now, finally at the end, a bit of the outside world is shown.