Is It the Pressure of the Situation That Caused Brandon to Kill?

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Jimmy stewart is just that convincing. That's what makes this e on satisfying, is like, he's sort of weazly in two ways that like, logically incompatible. I think it would be a lot baldier if he were like, i really blame myself, because you are a normal kid, and i convinced you to murder. Tewo t yes, both like, labetrata vews and your honor. I shal bri. Its just not plausible to read this like a situationist,. Because the whole point of situation ism is he put somebody in this situation, and they're more likely than not to act in this way. For every ten million people that

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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