The film Conspiracy sabotage is a spy film made by Hitchcock in England in 1936. The film is based on the Polish political novel Secret Agent, set in 1936, when the Nazis were in full swing.
However, the background of the era is very vague in the film, and even the specific instructions of the enemy spies, and what their purpose in creating chaos and assassinating politicians in London, are not specifically explained in the film - this can barely be pushed to the "MacGuffin method" of Heath's film. However, such a vague background introduction is also rare in Hitchcock's many spy movies.
Conspiracy Destruction is distinctly different from Hitchcock's post-spy films, and it's not even quite like Hitchcock's films. The spies in the movie, both positive and negative, are not like the brave or cunning spy characters in Hitchcock's other spy movies. The spies in the movie are all ordinary people, and their abilities are ordinary, and they can even be said to be unqualified.
Villain spies are more unreliable than the other. As a BOSS-level villain spy, the movie theater owner Willock not only easily exposed his identity as a spy, but even after he exposed his identity, not only did not take remedial measures, but still carried out the task of assassinating a politician in a country as originally planned. What's even funnier is that he was being watched by the police and unable to get out, he entrusted the assassination task to an ignorant child to carry out - I don't know if he should say that he has a big brain hole, or that he is stupid and bold?!
His spy colleagues were equally stupid. Willoc's upper line meets with Willoc in front of his wife and daughter to discuss the assassination mission. The two are this line, he uses explosives to carry out the silence operation, but just because his wife scolded, he easily canceled the operation. Unorganized and undisciplined, the operational capabilities of these villain spies are simply outrageously incompetent.
MI6 agent Ted, who was ordered to spy on Willow, was also unreliable. He knew that Mrs. Verok's husband was an enemy spy, but he still fell in love with her. Ted tries to exonerate the murderous Mrs. Willow, and even goes out with her. Such a professional agent is not here to solve the case at all, but to add to the trouble. In fact, the tragic deaths of the boy Steve and the bus passengers are inseparable from Ted's dereliction of duty.
Both sides are unreliable spies, and the story of the confrontation between them is naturally not very exciting.
In addition to the problem of human beings, the rhythm of the whole movie is flat, the story is like boiling water, and the excitement is not enough. Of course, the movie still has highlights.
One of the highlights is the realistic depiction of the home-style cinema of the 1930s, allowing modern audiences to understand the anecdotes of cinema from that era.
It turned out that the cinema at that time could freely choose what kind of movies to show (of course, it also had to face the risk of police inspection at any time); because of the screening accident caused by non-audience reasons such as power outages, the cinema could not refund the ticket.
The two most thrilling scenes in the film are the bombing of the boy Steven and the assassination of Her husband by Mrs. Willow.
These two scenes are also passages in the film's anti-Hitchcock routine. According to the conventions of Hitchcock films, such a detailed description of the process before and after Steven's bombing and the detailed depiction of Mrs. Willow's murder of her husband will have a wonderful reversal plot later in the movie. As a result, the boy Steven was innocently killed.
Mrs. Willow also easily stabbed her husband to death, and the revenge was successful!
The audience, who had expected to reverse the plot, was stunned. Can't help but wonder, is this really hitchcock's movie plot?
"Conspiracy Destruction" as an anti-Hitchcock routine Hitchcock movie, although there are highlights, but also have a certain observability, but still do not want to see it again.
(Text/Qin Shi Xiaoge revised at 15:30 on January 12, 2022)
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