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Sunday, September 7, 2025

Wars -- do people want to see them?

 from It's Only A Movie  (2005) a personal

biography of Alfred Hitchcock by his

interviewer CHARLOTTE CHANDLER

At the end of the war,

I made a film to show

the reality of the

concentrations camps,

you know.  Horrible.

It was more horrible

than any fantasy horror.

Then, nobody wanted to

see it.  It was too unbearable.

But it has stayed in my mind

all of these years.  I don't 

think many people actually

want reality, whether it's in

the theater or in films.  It must

only look real, because reality's

something none of us can stand

for too long.  Reality can be more

terrible than anything you can 

imagine."  (page 4).

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