The Glass Eye (Hitchcock TV)
example · tv: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (The Glass Eye) ·
retold in 3 talks
In Hitchcock Presents' 'The Glass Eye' a lonely woman falls for a handsome ventriloquist, Max Collodi; when she finally approaches and touches him, the big man collapses as a doll, the true living being is the small dummy, and a desperate midget steps out of the costume.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 3
“the ventriloquist was in fact the dummy while the hideous dummy is the actual ventriloquist.”
“She discovers that the truly living being is the doll, the small one, that there is a midget in there”
“What you thought it's a puppet was the real person and the big real person was the puppet. I think something like this happens in Christianity”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
God's self-alienation
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the dead God
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God is impotent without us
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Its cast and sources
populated by
Jessica Tandy3Johnny Cash3Muriel Spark2Walker Percy2Flannery O'Connor2Job2Richard Price1Alenka Ulej1
alongside works
Every retelling 3
46:06 Slavoj Zizek (Nov 11, 2017) - God, Athesism & 'Lord of the Rings' materialism philosophy of2017-11-11 · 51:52
In Hitchcock Presents' 'The Glass Eye' a lonely woman falls for a handsome ventriloquist, Max Collodi; when she finally approaches and touches him, the big man collapses as a doll, the true living being is the small dummy, and a desperate midget steps out of the costume., illustrating the ventriloquist was the dummy,God abdicates,Christian reversal of God the Father
1:46:11 PCPH Presents: Slavoj Žižek and Jean-Pierre Dupuy at Portland State University, October 31, 2014.2014-10-31 · 2:35:36
A woman falls in love with a ventriloquist, only to discover a dwarf inside the costume; the ventriloquist was the dummy, and the doll was the ventriloquist., illustrating God is dead,God is impotent without us
In this Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode, a woman falls for a handsome ventriloquist; at the end she touches him and discovers he is a puppet, the real person is the tiny dwarf inside the dummy. Žižek reads this as the structure of Christianity: Christ speaks for the Father but the Father is the empty dummy., illustrating God as dead Father/dummy,Christianity kills the big Other,creepiness of the neighbor