Name: La soga
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Genre: Suspense, Crimen, Drama
Released: 1948
Cast: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger

Question 1

Why do you think the students believed they were above moral rules?

Accepted Answer

Psychological thriller that condemns moral relativism with Hitchcockian technical mastery. Hitchcock constructs a formal and moral experiment in near real-time. Two students commit a murder out of intellectual arrogance, convinced that their superiority exempts them from common moral law. They hide the body in a chest and organize a macabre party where the corpse…

Question 2

What is the difference between discussing ideas in abstract and putting them into practice?

Accepted Answer

a murder out of intellectual arrogance, convinced that their superiority exempts them from common moral law. They hide the body in a chest and organize a macabre party where the corpse serves as a buffet table. The arrival of their professor, a brilliant criminologist whose…

Question 3

Why does the professor change his mind at the end? What did he learn about the responsibility of his own words?

Accepted Answer

common moral law. They hide the body in a chest and organize a macabre party where the corpse serves as a buffet table. The arrival of their professor, a brilliant criminologist whose academic theories they distorted to monstrosity, unleashes a masterful psychological tension.…