[UA] Hitchcock's "Rope" (spoilers)

[Ville Halonen]

I saw Hitchcock's "Rope" for the first time. I thought it was very UAble, 
but I know exactly how; thought you guys could help. Spoilers will follow, 
so skip this message if you haven't seen it. 




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Two guys, inspired by their teacher's thoughts on Nietzsche (superior and 
inferior beings) and murder as art, decide to kill their fellow student, 
who they see as an inferior being. The other killer is the weak one who 
can't hold himself together and not very interesting from an UA point-of-
view, but the stronger one is definitely trying to ascend as something.

He doesn't just kill an "inferior being" by strangling, he puts the body in 
a chest and invites people to have a party -- people who know him and who 
knew the victim, including his father, girlfriend, and his teacher who the 
killer knows has a brilliant intellect. He even decides to put up a buffet 
on the chest-come-coffin, so the visitors are eating off a coffin, 
suspecting nothing.

During the evening, the situation is filled with wordings hinting to 
killing and strangling. They also have a discussion on murder as an art: it 
is allowable if it is done by a superior being with a refined taste. The 
killer himself wants to discuss such matters, confident that he's 
performing the perfect murder. 

I'm sure I'm forgetting something of relevance, and I'm not quite sure how 
to fit in the homosexuality of the killers (and their teacher), but the 
killer has to be channeling SOMETHING. It's too easy explain his discussion 
on murder and such as "the killer wants to get caught"; he's going for some 
mojo.

But of what kind? I'm baffled.

-V