When the telephone rings with a jarring sound, she whirls around to face him, the camera zooming in on her startled expression. ... The doorframe in which she stands is evocative of a painted portrait, communicating to the audience that Madeleine is constructed as a fictional character rather than a real person. ... This inability to love a real flesh-and-blood woman is what fueled him to obsessively attempt to mould Judy into Madeleine, in later scenes, to explode in a ruthless fury upon discovering the truth, and drag Judy up the bell tower with vengeful cruelty, where she stum...

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