Is There Something Deep Inside You That Would Make You Do That?

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"It's not a deep point. It's a argument that's been made, but it's not even a shallow point," he says. "What is the alternative of there being something in brandon that made him killed? We're getting confused a little bit between the a clarence darrow arguments at trial, and ah, the speech in them the movie."

Special guest Yoel Inbar (author of Hitchcock’s Women: From Margaret Sullivan to Tippi Hedren) joins us to talk about Hitchcock’s long take masterpiece/gimmick Rope. Based loosely on the case of Leopold and Loeb, Rope tells the story of two young men who have read Nietzsche and decide to murder a schoolmate in order to cement their Übermensch status. Did they read Nietzsche correctly? Is conventional morality nothing but a construct to keep the inferior masses in line? Are professors accountable for what they teach? (Please God, no.) Plus, we delve deeper into Julie and Mark’s motivation, and Yoel plays a round of “Does the government deem this trademark scandalous?”

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