Shadow Of A Doubt Film Analysis

Suspicion
The way Hitchcock controlled the prospective of the family by how Hitchcock himself felt about family since he had a bad relationship with his parental figures. This bad relationship can also be seen in the film. In Shadow of a Doubt is there is not much of parental figures to Charlie and her siblings, since both of her parents worked. It also seem that the parents were quite clueless for what their children would say and ask and on what was truly going on with secrets that Uncle Charlie and Charlie were hiding. A different aspect about this family the Charlie points out is the her and Uncle Charlie are "like twins" where they think alike and feel a distinct connection. This is not normally seen with long distant family normally. This family may have been presented like and
ordinary family yet, they lacked in their trust and communication among one another.
The small town perspective of this film shows that people are quite naïve when they see a good looing business man who is not from there arrive and presume that he is such a great person. Yet, people can't judged by what is presented to them without knowing the person. This can be seen when Charlie is walking with Uncle Charlie to the bank, everyone she knows starts saying hello to her and feels good that her uncle is with her by her side. Maybe it is the way she feels about him, of him changing her prospective in life, then without knowing the actual truth. Another similar situation is when Uncle Charlie meets the widow she seems to have so what of an interest in him as he greats them. The camera angles that Hitchcock used to project the small town makes it seem as if it separated from the rest of the world. It also shows that people know each other fairly well even though not much of the town is shown rather the families home. Yet, Hitchcock does show that the neighborhood around is quite peaceful with little to deal with the "outside world. This sort of ordinary boring life can be seen about how Charlie felt, at the beginning of the film, of her life being useless with no meaning. Maybe this what drew Uncle Charlie to visit his older sister for a while to prevent more encounters with the detectives that were following him.
Based on how Uncle Charlie presented himself in the city made him seem like he was sick and did not show his face where he lived. This hiding of the world can be seen when Uncle Charlie was riding the train to visit his sister. People never really know how he really looked like and presumed that hi was sick. Now when he got off the train he kept his act until the train left and the change completely. Even Charlie notice this drastic change. Maybe this is when the suspicion first started but was sought as a minor detail. Another thing that Hitchcock probably wanted to point out with Uncle Charlie changes sneering's is that he still carried his dark side with him, or his so called shadow, that made him so mysterious and doubtful.
Well much suspicion can bee seen since the beginning of the film, but most of it is seen as soon as Uncle Charlie gives her the ring with someone else's initials engraved inside. When Charlie point it out Uncle Charlies facial expression changes to I have been caught, but must be cool so Charlie does not keep asking. Another suspicion moment was with the newspaper where Uncle Charlie took only one section, and tried to play it off by show the younger kids how to build a house, yet the kids did not seem interested. This two different scenarios Uncle Charlies try to play things off; however, makes it so awkward and stiff that give Charlie an initiative to start investigating the weird reactions Uncle Charlie has. An indirect point that Hitchcock made was when Uncle Charlie went with Charlie to deposited lose $40,000. Charlie may have perceived it as Uncle Charlie being a wealthy man that does not see money as a major priority, yet Charlie did not seem to think much from it, even the viewer saw it the same way not knowing why a man would carry lose $40,000 around with him. Other situations when Charlie is building doubt in her uncle is almost falling down the stares, getting locked in the garage with the car on and the way Uncle Charlie twisted the napkin at the bar/cafe. The major eye opening metaphorical point is when Uncle Charlie is at the top of the stairs and Charlie is by the doorway and you can see her shadow, this gives a good view of the doubt that she has on her Uncle Charlie indicating that she knows about his wickedness he has hidden all along.
Suspicion is not normally seen in the family setting.
Charlie finding out that Uncle Charlie was a murder kind of played with the morals of having a normal ordinary family that may have some difficulties here and there but does not normally think all the time that a far away family member may be a killer. Uncle Charlie also played with Charlies moral in trying to draw her into helping him out with his crimes. During this time the American attitudes on both Charlies was new change and having a more interesting life instead of hiding in the shadows or a small town or deaths. The values that both Charlies have in not wanting to hurt the mother/sister in knowing that Uncle Charlies was a killer of women who used money uselessly. The significance of suspicion in the story line brought up the thrill of truth, guilt, and death. The death of Uncle Charlie showed that Charlie was also some what calculative when trying to free herself from Uncle Charlie and knew the right moment to push him. This aspect is quit interesting in how Charlies learned to some what think like her uncle which made her attitude of loving her uncle deeply to suspiciously doubting his thinking and way of doing
things.