It’s one of Hitchcock’s best scripts, filled with small town details that are both charming and disturbing. Ironically she’s the one who starts to suspect that things are not what they seem. He comes to the town of Santa Rosa to hide in plain sight with his adoring family and the niece who was named for him. Uncle Charlie isn’t just everyone’s favorite uncle in a small town he’s also “The Merry Widow Killer,” a psychopath who kills rich widows and takes their money as a sacred duty. It’s Blue Velvet forty-three years before the fact, a movie obsessed with nihilism long before the bleak post-World-War-II period, and it’s one of Hitchcock’s best films. Shadow of a Doubt is a film obsessed with morality and our concept of it, of evil things lurking beneath our cheery exteriors. “What’s the use of looking backward? What’s the use of looking ahead? Today’s the thing. If you want to avoid spoilers, watch the movie first!
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