For completeness's sake ...
The episode of 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' called "Banquo's Chair" that
Hitchcock directed in March 1959 (airdate: May 3rd), just prior to
making PSYCHO, also begins by establishing a precise place and time:
Blackheath, near London, October 23, 1903, 7.20pm.
Brad Stevens, an authority on Hitchcock's TV work (see the latest issue
of the French journal 'Trafic'), comments that this precision 'inspires
a false sense of security at the outset of a narrative which will plunge
us into the unpredictable chaos world' - in which a ghost will disrupt
the triumph of a retired police inspector who has just tricked a
matricidal murderer into confessing. (Well, the victim was the
murderer's aunt, actually.)
Btw, I completed my week-long Web exercise in relating Hitchcock to
Adam Roberts's review of Jake Horsley's book on the world of THE MATRIX
- with plenty of references to Schopenhauer and Nietzsche!
The URL: http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin/news-home_c.html
- Ken Mogg
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