'Rope' directed by Alfred Hitchcock is another film that is all about suspense.
Two young well educated men strangle and murder a friend of theirs just to see if they have the intellect to get away with it. They then invite close friends, their old professor,and the murdered mans parents round for a dinner party while hiding the body in a covered chest under all the food in the sitting room.
The chest is always in the centre of the shot, which builds anticipation and suspense as we don't know if they will get found out. There is also a strong sense of disgust as there is a dead body in the middle of the room!
The audience was almost part of the murder and therefore we know something the other character's don't, which gives us an advantage over them, we hold the upper hand. A part of us might not want them to be found out and prosecuted, just to see how things play out.
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