In the usual brilliant Hitchcock fashion, he maintains a strong viewer perspective on the various mental crises taken on by Marnie.
In a familiar Hitchcock story, the titular Marnie (Tippi Hedren) experiences immense psychological traumas, and her husband Mark (Sean Connery) attempts to resolve her issues, even though his wife is a habitual thief. In terms of plotting, the film has a light grasp. Audiences are left to ride the waves of this tumultuous relationship. In the usual brilliant Hitchcock fashion, he maintains a strong viewer perspective on the various mental crises taken on by Marnie. The intense visual language of Hitchcock’s directing to exhibit her mental anguish is the closest the director has gotten to horror, even more so than Psycho or The Birds.