Must We Kill the Thing We Love? by Rothman William;

Author:Rothman, William;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PER004030, Performing Arts/Film & Video/History & Criticism, PER004010, Performing Arts/Film & Video/Direction & Production
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2014-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

Figure 11.5

Both associations are confirmed, I take it, when the petals part, opening a yawning hole that draws the camera into it, engulfing the frame in blackness. From this blackness emerges the most enigmatic shot in the film. It duplicates the framing in which Gavin Elster, after the inquest, has the chutzpah to say to Scottie, “Only you and I know who really killed Madeleine.” What makes the present shot different is the woman standing next to Elster. Silhouetted against the window, more shadow than flesh and blood, looking at neither man, she is turned inward, like the ghost at the end of Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu (1953), mindful that she must return to the dead as soon as she completes her unfinished business on earth. Then a color shift reveals this woman to be, or seem, real. Plainer than Kim Novak (who isn’t?), she is a woman we have never seen before. As she turns her head to cast an accusing gaze at Scottie, we see that she is dressed like Carlotta in her portrait.

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