![]() From this window, we look inside with the camera, as it zooms in to reveal Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten), lying on the bed and smoking a cigar. Then there is a shot of a street where children play ball a slow fade-in reveals a house, and a similar one shows one of its windows. Next shot is of a junk car left by itself just a small distance away from the bridge and beyond it the city’s skyline is visible. ![]() This transition is rather bizarre because there is a big gap between the two shots in terms of atmosphere, but a while later we understand that it foreshadows the double life of the film’s protagonist. Shadow of a Doubt‘s opening is intriguing in the sense that it establishes the camera’s point of view as an invisible third person narrator that will explicitly point to us some of the most important clues about the story.Ĭouples in elegant dresses are dancing in a ballroom as the credits run and the image slowly fades in to the shot of a bridge, under which two men are eating sandwiches.
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