North by Northwest

The Movie North by Northwest directed by Alfred Hitchcock is an exciting thriller, as we were brought in an intense adventure in finding the truth with Thornhill and falling in love with the CIA agent Eve along the way. The movie is a detective story but the protagonist is the guy who accidentally involved in the mess, and he had to play the detective to uncover the truth himself because no one, even his own mother would not believe what happened to him. Throughout the movie, there were many key moments which made the film so much fun to watch, however the most curial scene is the crop duster scene. (time stamp:72:13) Hitchcock arranged the scene to be in the middle of nowhere, contrary to beginning of the film where Thornhill was always in a crowd surrounded by a lot of people, there were occasional cars drove by, thinking Kaplan would finally show his face, but once again Thornhill was disappointed, and so were we, the worst part is that he got attacked by the crop duster spraying a huge amount of pesticide. This particular scene used extensive camera angles to demonstrate how dangerous the situation was, at time stamp 67:19 the camera takes a panning long shot when Thornhill looks around him trying to get a full scenery of where he is and also searching for the man who he was mistakenly known for. At time stamp: 69:37 a guy came out of a car, at that point, he must be Kaplan, but turns out he was just an insignificant person waiting for a bus and took off, after that, there goes the dusting scene, the plane flew over and it was only a few feet on top of him, forcing him on the ground several times repeatedly, when Thornhill dives in a cornfield, the plane started shooting but all missed him. The plane came more and more close towards the camera at high speed, makes the scene a super intense one, this scene is significant because it revealed how determined the spies were to kill him and the cleverness of Thornhill,  given how he survived the devastating attack, if he had not reacted fast enough, he would have been dead on the spot, as a result,  this scene laid the foundation of how Thornhill came through all the other challenges as the story progresses.