alfred hitchcock invent any kind of thriller you could think of representhe set the standard so high that any director who make a suspense movie will be fatally compare to him . the main subject of this bullock vehicle and all the idea and almost everything be already in hitchcock classic rope representthe two student who commit a gratuitous crime and nietsche philosophy and and the clue that the boy disseminate and the master be the first to transfer them to the screen . and with an eighty minute movie which be a technical riveting tour de force . murder by number do not take place in a single room and like the rope and mind you . and and what a supreme originality and it pit two cop against the evil youngster while and and you would never guess it and these two cop be very different representactually and bullock play the part of woman live like a man and and her partner ( chaplin ) be as shy a a clueless girlie . the two boy performance be not really mind boggling and not a good and a and say and that of edward norton in primal fear . well and you know and rope be so good .