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So this is actually a movie, strictly speaking, rather than a book (although it's also a book, that I haven't read). But this is my web site, and I can do what I want.
A good movie, rich and well-crafted, well acted. Starts out looking like a theft / love / blackmail / suspense sort of thing, and turns into something rather else. Goes a bit pop-psych at the end, and the music rather hits you over the head ("something scary's happening!!!"), but those are probably signs of age more than inherent weaknesses.
In the Some Things Never Change folder: the DVD includes a bunch of stills of posters used to advertise the movie, and an original trailer. Most of the posters include the word "sex", and in the trailer not only does Hitchcock himself call it a "sex mystery", but they show every single directly sexy moment in the film (all three kisses, and the one hint of nudity). This gives a wild misimpression of the film (just like modern trailers!), which is really more about childhood trauma and love and repression and fear and memory than about sex (the main sexy character is Diane Baker's; Tippi Hedron's Marnie is too messed up otherwise to get anywhere near sex).
(And why the heck do I have this feeling that I've seen Diane Baker in something else? I don't think I'm remembering her from Journey to the Center of the Earth, am I?)
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