One Paragraph Movie Review: Marnie

Three hundred and fifty-seventh film: Marnie, an odd Hitchcock psychological crime/romance film from 1964 starring Sean Connery, Tippi Hedren, and amateur psychoanalysis. The main theme centres around how undisclosed childhood trauma can turn beautiful women into pathological liars and compulsive thieves specialising in robbing big safes in a corporate environment, unable to tolerate a man’s touch. But the main story centres around a deeply weird scenario in which the beautiful woman’s boss falls in love with her after she robs him, traps her in a blackmail-based marriage, forces himself on her, and then psycho-analyses his way into her heart. Deeply implausible, intensely sexist and quite weird, for some reason this is still thoroughly watchable and not bad. Still, though. Best not to force people to marry you, hey. Best not. Two and a half unconvincing horse riding accidents out of five.