Wednesday, May 4, 2016

The Ring (1927)

Great Cinematography - Boring Story


The story of "The Ring" I personally found boring for most of the film. A love triangle: one woman and two boxers that end up duking it out over her. She was rather bored in her marriage as I was bored with this film. It surprises me that the story was rather a snore because Alfred Hitchcock not only directed it but wrote it.

There are a couple of scenes I got a giggle out of and a really dramatic scene about an hour into it - good scenes when the husband has found out about his wife cheating and he confronts her, ripping off the shoulder of her dress revealing her slip top and then he grabs and rips off the upper arm bracelet that she is concealing that her lover gave her. Then the husband goes out to find the man.

What is good about the film is the cinematography and editing - it's a great early Hitchcock directing piece.

3/10



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