Sunday, May 04, 2008

Marnie

This is a movie which is more closely related to psychoanalysis and has a kleptomaniac as its protagonist known as Marnie. This is one of the not so well known flicks of Hitchcock. Marnie is a compulsive thief who uses her beauty to trap the employers to get herself a job and then eventually robs them. This thing continues till she enters the Rutland's publishing company which is owned by Mark (played by Sean Connery). But at Rutland's she gets caught by Mark who forces her to marry him in spite of her sickness. Mark desperately tries to help her to get over her psychological sicknesses. But she never lets him come near her even after the marriage. Mark tries to get to the core of the problem and finds that Marnie has a repetitive dream in which she refers to her Mama. Though this movie is not up to the expectations of a Hitchcock movie I think it has psychoanalytical relevance and also offers insight about the origins of a repetitive and haunting dream.

2 comments:

Pallavi Damera said...

Saw this yesterday... it has the same feel of vertigo... a beautiful blonde in a criminal frame, persevering man to find the truth... and similar eerie music and dialogs said in such deep voices and feeling

Narendra said...

Have to see vertigo..am preserving it in my laptop for say..~973 days.. :)