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Duel

2018年4月20日 (金)

Recently, someone recommended that I watch the movie Duel. (The Japanese title is: 激突！) I wonder if any of my readers have ever heard of this movie. It was actually the first movie directed by Steven Spielberg, way back in 1971. I was intrigued, so I watched it at home that same evening. I enjoyed the movie very much, and I felt it was thrilling and interesting, with a lot of the suspense that made classic American movies great. I could see connections between Duel and Jaws, which was one of Spielberg’s early masterpieces. I also felt that it had some stylistic similarity with the later color Hitchcock films like Rear Window and To Catch a Thief, even though the story and action were quite different. If you are interested in classic American movies, I think you should give this one a try.