
Rope (1948) - based on the play Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Starring Mr. Jimmy Stewart
Rope is an important movie especially for
those in France. Since the French have the most humanistic reputation in the
qualities
of sensitive and warm engagement, it is a look at cold personalities
that lurk underneath those that have a false claim to being superior
in that
they consider themselves intellectually inclined instead. Those that lack human
feeling, and think they have the gift of articulation
when in fact they are
bantering with what is clearly inane use of language lacking in all validity
from a moral or logical perspective in true fact.
The
movie provides a closer look at the pseudo intellectual,
a geekish personality of sorts whose thoughts are fixated on psychotic needs
and desires and who demonstrates that he is
altogether inane in his sense of virtue and rationality in fact. Style can never substitute for substance.
Someone that so much lacks not only normal
human emotion but instead harbors the degree of psychosis that would lead to
murder, is not
someone that should consider that he is in fact somewhat
brilliant at being “superior civilized” as in fact our character in this
movie appears
to think of himself.
In the end, it is what people say, and do,
and indeed, mostly how they feel on vital basic issues that matter more than the
pretense of a charlatan
in the style of a sophist from Socratic era language
playing at the game of “rationally superior”. Those that live by the sword
shall die by the sword
is the old adage and in this respect such personalities
as in this movie are in fact an irrational, unsustainable phenomenon and will
certainly only give
way to a Hobbesian reality in time if allowed to persist and
prevail in our midst, certainly. If someone appears
intelligent to you, perhaps you are
being fooled by his manner rather than by what he really is. Watch and listen closely,
then stay "en guarde"!
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Michael Rizzo Chessman