Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Well, last night the heat really got to me.  My hair was wet with sweat, and sleeping without covers is difficult for me, and it just didn't cool off.  I could have gone downstairs, but I really doubt I could have slept there either.  My husband and I had watched a DVD, Hitchcock's "Notorious", and it's one of my favorite films of his.  So I spent my waking moments analyzing it.  What's not to like about Cary Grant, like ever, and Ingrid Bergman was incandescent on screen.  This one is crackling with sexuality, and the Code people wouldn't let Hitchcock film them in a long kiss, but he got around it by breaking up the kiss by them talking in between.  And since the dialogue is so delightful, it enhances the charge of the scene.  Their faces throughout the movie are a master lesson in acting, and the fact that they are both edgy and afraid of falling for each other makes their attraction greater for us.  These are flawed, complicated adults, with a lot of past pushing at them, and we root for them because they are real.  My favorite Hitchcock is "Rebecca", but that's because I loved du Maurier's novel as a teenager.  Joan Fontaine is really a little goody two shoes, though Maxim played by the great Laurence Olivier is complex and dark.  At the end, you really know they're not going to have a happily ever after, but Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.  You betcha!