Strangers on a Train Motifs

Strangers on a Train Motifs Alfred Hitchcock’s, Strangers on a Train reinforces the duality of human nature and effectively transforms a highly improbable situation into a series of logical events, which lead to murder. Hitchcock has constructed most of the events in this particular movie around the idea of twos in regard to his film technique (crosscutting/match cuts) as well as a number of references to doubles (shoes in the opening scene) throughout …

…place at the carnival. These scenes aren’t as rich in regard to symbolism. Most classic movies have their resolution in the same place that the problem at hand starts; Strangers on a Train is no different in that respect. When Bruno murders Miriam at the carnival he initiates Guys dilemma. The final scene of the movie in which Bruno gives back the lighter symbolizes the end of Guys conflict within, hence the films resolution.