MarÃas and Hitchcock
A Heart so White explores this strange and disturbing notion when MarÃas writes: “it’s odd how the features of those who no longer see us and whom we can no longer see become blurred, out of anger or absence or attrition, or how they become usurped by their photographs fixed for ever on a particular day”. The isolated object of a single photograph is “odd” and dominant, ruling out or usurping the plurality of human experience. Thus, the constructed image in a Hitchcock film or a MarÃas novel has a distinct and dangerous strangeness simply due to its singularity: it is outlandishly and horrifically non-human.
By Joseph Bullock.