【世界文化博览】惊悚大师：希区柯克 5

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Once I said to him, in your films, mothers have a very bad time, or mother figures have, haven't they? Does this tie up with anything in your own childhood? And you know the old man's eyes, he was into his 60s, began almost to water. Whether with malevolence or with grief or sadness, I don't know, but he didn't welcome the question.
He talked to me about his bringing up, which was not easy. It was a rather narrow, prejudiced, lower middle class life.
The Hitchcocks were devout Catholics, a fact that film critics of the future would make much of.
Do you accept to be a regardless Catholic artist?
It does come in. It's true. It may be that one's upbringing. This is so inculcated with the early aspects of religion that it drives one's instinct, you know, for example, in many forms...
But perhaps the biggest influence on the future filmmaker was an incident that became an essential part of the Hitchcock legend.
At a very tender age, I was frightened by a policeman. I don't remember now what it was I'd done, but my father sent me along to the police station with a note. He locked me in a cell for five minutes, and finally said "that's what we do to naughty boys".
I do believe that story. Hitchcock frequently told it, told it until we were sick of hearing it, but I do think that it is exactly the explanation of many of the fears in his films, the fear not necessarily being physically locked up, but the fear suddenly of finding yourself in a situation you can't control.