Rebecca (1940)

I like the film because it is quite interesting – to an extent. Although it wasn’t heading in the direction I thought it was going in, and every time I thought: “yeah I understand what’s going on”, something completely insane happened, and I was once again thrown off course. I suppose it does have that signature mad energy of every Hitchcockian film I’ve ever watched and it did have me on the edge of my seat, waiting for Rebecca to appear or wondering if she even would appear in the feature, which is {being suspenseful} an Hitchcockian trait, so I guess you could argue that it’s a well-produced and a technically good film. The problem lies, for me, in the length of the film. Just when I thought it was finished - bam - the characters found themselves in another situation and the film went on for another half an hour, I also sometimes got confused with the male characters as in my opinion they all looked quite familiar and I was left wondering who was who. But all in all, considering it was made in the 1940s I’d say this film aged very well, the graphics may not be the best but the plot is really interesting and captivating and like I said at the beginning, it had me fooled, because I did not know that it would end up like that. The character known as Rebecca is seriously cool for a 1940s girl and I am impressed that she even exists. I would say that, because it was adapted from a book, it had a greater range of creative input added to it so I suppose that did help to the overall appeal, but yeah as a lesser known Hitchcock film, I think Rebecca holds its own among the most well-known Hitchcock features out there and I would highly recommend it.