Hitchcock's Subtextual Coding in 'Rope'
Hitchcock is no stranger to innuendo, as was common in that era, but there was something so sophisticated about his approach to 'Rope', and it starts in the first frame.

Agustín, a young man about to start university, chooses the same major as his friends because he's still unsure of his path. But when they decide to pursue their true callings, he's left adrift. In his quest to find his identity, Agustín draws inspiration from new role models… without imagining that they will come to life and lead him into a series of hilarious and revealing entanglements.
Hitchcock is no stranger to innuendo, as was common in that era, but there was something so sophisticated about his approach to 'Rope', and it starts in the first frame.
An excellent exploration of taking a joke too far.
We have a long way to go with LGBT representation in film, especially when it comes to LGBT characters of color and trans characters.
What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.