Friday 15 October 2010


Marnie by Alfred Hitchcock

  • I found this film very interesting, I wanted to keep watching to understand more, however I did find some parts of the film odd and confusing but everything came into place at the end.

  • Marnie Holland had stolen $9,967 dollars from where she worked.
  • She had a bunch of different identities ranging from Mary Taylor to Margaret Edgar to Martha Heilbron.
  • After stealing the money where she had worked, she packed 2 suitcases and placed one in a train stations locker and put the key down the drain.
  • She went to a new town and dyed her hair from black to blonde.
  • Marnie applied for a new job at Rutland & Co, a man called Mark recognises her from her last job, but decides to give her a test run at the job.
  • Marnie in her spare time loves to ride her black horse called Foreyo.
  • Mark the owner of Rutland & Co discovered that Marnie had stolen Lisa's key and stole money out of the safe.
  • However Mark ends up taking her for a meal, he says you have two choices either I can turn you into the police or you marry me.
  • Marnie marries Mark even though she did not want to, she hates to be handled by any men.
  • Marnie has these nightmares about her muma being hurt and seeing the colour red.
  • Mark and Marnie have a house party, however the Strutts were invited who Marnie had previously stolen from, he admits he recognises her but she keep saying no you don't as she was worried that she would go to jail.
  • Mark confronts Marie about how many times she's stolen, she admits she has done 5 jobs in the last 5 years stealing over $50,000 dollars from 5 different towns ranging from Buffalo, Detroit, New Jersey, New York, Elizabeth.
  • Mark explains to Marnie she has 2 options, coming clean and possibly not getting a jail sentence or Mark offers to pay everything she has stolen however there might be a possibly jail sentence.
  • Marnie goes on a horse hunt with Mark's family (sister, father & friends) and sees the colour red and rides off jumping over fences however her horse gets stuck on a wall and she shoots Foreyo as he's in pain. She takes the same gun to Mark's work place and tries to steal from him again, however Mark finds her.
  • Mark decides to take her to her mothers to get some answers on why Marnie is so sick, to remind her of what happened that night thats haunted her all these years not knowing what really happened.
  • Marnie's mother insists to not remind her as she thought it was a message from the God's that her memory that night disappeared.
  • Marnie begins to remember that a sailor was round with her mother and starting kissing Marnie as she was afraid of the lighting. Her mother starts hitting him trying to get him off of Marnie and Marnie tries to help her mother but accidentally ends up killing the sailor. When it came to the police Marnie's mother took the blame to protect her daughter.

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