But he was also notorious for the content of his films which centered around devious plots, paranoia, deceit, and above all, murder. He even has a movie that's just is straight up called Murder. He's the last director you expect a genuine love story from, which is what Notorious is. It's about a lady who falls in love with a guy because she is blackout wasted. I'm going to drive. With driving like this good, she'll never be able to reach the end credits on Cruising USA. So, the USA says, "Let's send this lady back to Germany to be a spy for us with no training." And since she's so drunk, she agrees. The premise is Psycho, and it's from the maker of Psycho. And this movie is even better than Psycho. Just because he
karate chops her and knocks her out cold on their first date and then sends her off to marry a Nazi conspirator, she thinks he isn't in love with her, but actually he is. The problem is that they're both such good actors in real life that they can't trust each other in the movie. They're both in love, but only when the other person isn't looking. What a little pal you are. to although to be fair, the lady does become a secret agent just to please the student and he's still playing hard to get. Like really, it's funny and then it's cruel and then you think, wait, what if he actually doesn't like her though? As we grow older, we learn to deny instinct and compromise because the world is compromised. But a person can
only withstand so much. Why won't you let me be happy? Nobody's stopping you. In the movie, the dishonesty is literally killing her. She's delirious, bedridden in a place where Nazis can't even be real with each other. She's trapped in this den of deception, waiting for a sliver of reality to come to her like a dream.