In that movie, Granger played the pianist Rupert Cadell, who was similarly entrapped as an accomplice to murder by his dominating roommate Brandon. Both movies center on a murder committed just to prove a theory, and in both films the Granger character's only anguish is the fear of getting caught, not remorse or guilt over the deed itself. Bruno Anthony is one of Hitchcock's most fascinating creations. Charming, afflicted with a batty mother who gives him his artistic bent, Bruno says something very strange to Senator Morton at the party shortly before he accidentally strangles Mrs. Cunningham, while staring at Barbara Morton. I'm already developing my faculty for seeing millions of miles.
Astral projection is the ability of the soul to travel outside of the body.
It is something most of us commonly perform while dreaming, and the sensation one gets of falling upon awakening from a particularly vivid dream, is often metaphorically expressed in Hitchcock's films when one of his characters falls to their doom. Remote viewing is a disciplined form of astral projection that has been successfully employed by the CIA and US Military Intelligence to locate chemical weapons in Iraq. It is accomplished when the mind concentrates on a far off object, say a flower on Mars, and projects its consciousness to that object to report on it. It is very reminiscent of when Hitchcock put uranium into wine bottles of Notorious , made a year before anyone had ever heard of nuclear energy or the atomic bomb.