Hitchkock here denounces the seed of fascism, but also does not hide the homophobia of of the original theatre play. I guess those days any gay character deserved to be considered as an assassin or evil in anyway, or even worse a sympathetic poor queen costumed in women's wear.
I don't like this movie specially for this because show gays as bad people just because we have a different sexuality (not because we are different to the rest of human beings)... It's ridiculous I still have to say this in XXI century.
The technique of using what is apparently one shot with the camera moving all the way as if it were in a theatre stage could be innovative those days, now is just a curiosity.
However the hidden or not so hidden message that homosexuality is something bad and homosexuals are always evil or sympathetic people spoils from my point of view, the rest.
I don't like this movie specially for this because show gays as bad people just because we have a different sexuality (not because we are different to the rest of human beings)... It's ridiculous I still have to say this in XXI century.
The technique of using what is apparently one shot with the camera moving all the way as if it were in a theatre stage could be innovative those days, now is just a curiosity.
However the hidden or not so hidden message that homosexuality is something bad and homosexuals are always evil or sympathetic people spoils from my point of view, the rest.