Thank God that police investigations in real life aren't as ridiculous as the ones in many of these Hitchcock episodes. In this one, a woman at a cocktail party asks to be hypnotized by an expert. While in a trance, she becomes a psychotic young woman from the South in the mid 1800's. She suddenly grabs a letter opener from a table and stabs her husband to death. Well, you get it. She's not responsible because she was a different person and there's no way to prove otherwise. I have a feeling that the law would have leaned on her a lot harder than they ultimately. Meanwhile, the hypnotist, who it turns out has a few skeletons in his closet, tries for a payoff from the young woman. The police and the legal system are totally incapable of at least an investigation. Like, perhaps looking into the relationship with the husband or checking the story a bit further. One other thing that has always bothered me. The ease with which people are killed with pointed objects. I know hitting the right spot can kill a person, but most don't have the skill to find that spot and people don't really that easily. In "Dial M for Murder" Grace Kelley easily kills her assailant sent by her husband, using a pair of scissors. Yet in "Torn Curtain" there is a long painful attempt to kill a man who doesn't want to be dead. Oh, well, I'm learning to be patient although this effort just doesn't seem to rate my patience. Oh, you know there is a twist at the end, but I'll leave that to your perusal.
Review of Murder Me Twice
