我们每个人在屏幕上看到过多少起杀人事件？这跟我们有什么关系呢？我们是否依然是不会连一只苍蝇都不会伤害的守法公民？

以诙谐和颠覆性著称的电影史学家大卫·汤姆森带领我们走进这个非常微妙的话题。在解读《七号》、《仁心与冠冕》、《火车上的陌生人》、《同流者》、《教父》、《闪灵》等经典影片的同时，他还让人不安地感受到，电影的形式是如何让我们成为这个险恶叙事过程中的帮凶。

《谋杀与电影》既诱人又收敛，既严肃又突然变得滑稽，它让我们进入了汤姆森所说的 "扭曲的三角关系"：创作者在设计一种令人信服的死亡；凶手在竭尽全力；而被迷住的读者和观众则在努力坚持生活和适当的道德感。

How many acts of murder have each of us followed on a screen? What does that say about us? Do we remain law-abiding citizens who wouldn’t hurt a fly?

Film historian David Thomson, known for wit and subversiveness, leads us into this very delicate subject. While unpacking classics such as Seven, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Strangers on a Train, The Conformist, The Godfather, and The Shining, he offers a disconcerting sense of how the form of movies makes us accomplices in this sinister narrative process.

By turns seductive and astringent, very serious and suddenly hilarious, Murder and the Movies admits us into what Thomson calls “a warped triangle”: the creator working out a compelling death; the killer doing his and her best; and the entranced reader and spectator trying to cling to life and a proper sense of decency.