I think Ingrid Bergman really outshines everyone else in this classic old Hitchcock, so to that extent it’s delightful, and it has all the best Hitchcock subtleties and clues; like most of his movies I’m not always the most captivated by the plot itself but this one is a lot better than North by Northwest.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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