For the Hitchcock fans

[bondo_ba]

For the Hitchcock fans out there (I'm sure my flist contains more than a few), yesterday's Classically Educated post is one that should send you to whichever place you get your movies from for a refresher course on Shadow of a Doubt, a film often called Hitchcock's favorite

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[msstacy13]

The library here has a copy,
which I've requested.
Not sure how soon I'll have it.

Meanwhile, "any kind of novel with a consistent point of view."
*blink*
Your motto could easily be
"Rules are like non-returnable bottles. Made to be broken."
Except that one, apparently...
But you know, everyone in the crowd has a cell phone;
why do you have to pick one cell phone out of the crowd,
and limit your view to what a single person in that crowd is looking at?

Well, okay, other than the troika of readers, publishers, and agents wanting nothing else...

[bondo_ba]

Well, I don't mind having multiple POV characters in a novel, but in this case, it would be impossible to show much of the action without getting into the uncle's head - and it would be impossible to do that without giving the game away completely (or without cheating). While I agree that my respect for the rules is often suspect, I do believe in being fair to the reader - and I can't see a non-contrived, non-clunky way of doing so in this case.

Which is why, for one of the few time in my life, I feel a film works better than a book would in this case.

[msstacy13]

I'll have to see the film before I can say much more about it.
(Well, duh!)
:)

[msstacy13]

So I've watched it,
and I think a book would work well enough
limited to young Charlie's view.

But I'm not going to try writing to prove that.