Rope

Rope is a 1948 thriller from Alfred Hitchcock about the murder of a school boy by two of his classmates who then go on to host a party using the chest they hd his body in as the table they serve food from to the boys family and fiancee.

The idea behind the murder is based on conversations with their prep-school housemaster who discussed with them the concepts of Nietzsche's Ubermensch (supermen) as a way of showing superiority over inferiority however this gives a moral dilemma as who decides whether some one is superior or inferior.

As the party goes on the guests grow ever weary that David (the school boy) is not present to the point where we can se the guilt in one of the main characters eyes as he continues to drink he lets more and more slip though only the housemaster notices what is truly going on.

At the end of the film after all of the guests have left the housemaster comes back "claiming" he has left his cigarette case but in reality he knows that they murdered David as he found his hat in the coat closet and confronts his two former pupils, the film ends with the sounds of sirens as the housemaster fired a gun out of the window to get attention.

The maguffin in this hitchcock film is the party, as we do not really care about the guests and the party itself but it is the party that moves the plot onwards by drawing attention to the fact that David is not present. this causes tension between the two murderers as one of them is worried about people finding out whilst the other thinks it is a game and wants them to find out so they can admire his handiwork.
 This is a trailer for the film:

This trailer give us a small glimpse into what the film is about and mainly advertises the suspense which is one of the biggest plot points in this movie.This does a very effective job of drawing the viewer in and makes them want to know what exactly going on.


This film contains a deep sense of suspense as there comes a point when the housekeeper wants to place some books back into the table and she almost opens up the lid, the whole time the audience are expecting her to find out and we are on the very edge of our seats but luckily she is stopped and we can calm ourselves down.