![]() ![]() ![]() Lena is in effect a reincarnation of his dead wife, a woman who wants to reinstate his 'original' identity. ![]() Most obviously, it is a reworking of 'Vertigo', the story of a homme fatal (Koller - black widower?) who kills two women because he couldn't say the right thing, because he behaved like a man should, rather than the way he really feels. 'La Peau Douce', 'The Bride Wore Black'), 'Shoot the Pianist' is his most Hitchcockian film. Although Truffaut would go on to make self-conscious and superficial tributes to his hero (e.g. More objectively, it amounts to a manifesto for Truffaut's intentions with the film, the way he will turn the gangster genre inside out, a genre he confessed to not really liking. but it also suggests that Charlie Koller's fatal emotional timidity has warped or deadened that soul, made it a mere mechanism, alive only in a technical sense. it will suggest that his insides are like the piano's insides, the the only way he can express what's buried inside of him is through piano-playing - this is what gives the film its emotional pull. it says that this film will similarly uncover the insides (heart, soul) of a man who gives nothing away on the surface. This image points to the film's ambiguity. 'Shoot the Pianist' opens with the insides of a playing piano, the inner machinations of a musical instrument. ![]()
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