Review of Notorious

Notorious (1946)
6/10
If Only People Said What They Actually Mean
13 May 2015
This film literally annoyed me the entire time I watched it. Almost no one in the film says what they actually mean. The script writing drove me insane. The main male character, Devlin, played by Cary Grant, is a hardball throughout the entire film. He almost never says how he feels or what he really thinks, making the film more complicated and confusing than it has to be. The main female character, Alicia, played by Ingrid Bergman isn't much better, although she does appear to be stronger emotionally. Together they make quite the dysfunctional couple and this greatly distracted me from the rest of the film. The editing between scenes was cool as the old scenes would fade away and the new ones would appear. I personally do not see the great appeal of Cary Grant and I feel like another male actor, one with a more emotional side, would have played Devlin better.
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