Shadow of a Doubt

Teil der Special Reihe DAVID’S DOUBLE DREAMS

In diesem Text geht es um beide Filme des Double Features: SHADOW OF A DOUBT und BLUE VELVET
“You think you know something, don't you? You think you're the clever little girl who knows something. There's so much you don't know, so much. What do you know, really? You're just an ordinary little girl, living in an ordinary little town. You wake up every morning of your life and you know perfectly well that there's nothing in the world to trouble you. You go through your ordinary little day, and at night you sleep your untroubled ordinary little sleep, filled with peaceful stupid dreams. And I brought you nightmares. Or did I? Or was it a silly, inexpert little lie? You live in a dream. You're a sleepwalker, blind. How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know, if you rip off the fronts of houses, you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it? Wake up, Charlie. Use your wits. Learn something.“
Uncle Charlie

In SHADOW OF A DOUBT legt sich der Schatten von Onkel Charlie (Joseph Cotton) bei seinem Familien-Besuch unheilvoll über die ganze Kleinstadt. Als ob etwas nicht greifbar Böses diese amerikanische Idylle infiltriert. Die brutale Boshaftigkeit von Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) entfaltet sich in BLUE VELVET auch in einer Kleinstadt (namens Lumberton) hinter den schützenden Vorhängen der Nacht - und sie korrumpiert dabei die Seele des Ortes von Innen.