You know what aspect of movie making doesn't get enough attention paid to it? ENDINGS. Yes, people can say "the ending was great!" or "what a shit ending!" but I mean some endings just pack so much of a punch, ya know! And I'm not thinking of "twist endings" but movies that just end with a powerful shot or something like that. I'm thinking Birth, The Blair Witch Project, Psycho, Lost in Translation, Sunset Blvd, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And now I can include Notorious to that list. What a great ending with Claude Rains just walking towards the front door, entering and then having it slam behind him. It just makes you imagine what happened afterwards, doesn't it?!
Plus, it helps that the entire movie before it was swell. I'd never really noticed the uncanny similarity between Ingrid Bergman and daughter Isabella Rossellini before. Like, I couldn't NOT notice it for the entire movie, whereas before it's never been an issue. I say it that way around because I was familiar with Isabella before I was with Ingrid. Oh well. A-
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I maintain that Notorious is the most romantic movie ever made. I LOVE Notorious. It's always duking it out with Vertigo as my second favorite Hitch film - nothing could ever beat Rear Window for me, though.
And Isabella Rossellini totally stalks me, btw. She was always in my hometown of Rochester, NY, for film events (her mother had a house in Rochester - big film community there), and I saw her all the time through college and then I moved to NYC and I've seen her probably five or six times here. The woman wants me. ;-)
Oh yes, um, on endings... the end of Notorious is great, that shot you described sums it all up; his fate is as sealed as that door.
Blair Witch's the end is just so. utterly. unbearable (in a great way) that I can barely believe it exists. Awesome, really.
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