Answer:
Alfred Hitchcock, in his article let ‘em play God from 1948, where the sentence "I do not believe that puzzling the audience is the essence of suspense" was taken, says that the element that keeps people glued to mystery movies is suspense.
Explanation:
The audience has a strong feeling of suspense when they know what might happen to the characters in the story, despite the fact that they are clueless with the situation of danger they are in. This is what he calls ‘to play God.’
In this respect, he says that it is not necessary to puzzle the audience to keep them in suspense the whole movie, and later he uses his movie ‘Rope’ to support his statement. In this drama, two men strangled a third man with a rope and put his body in a chest. After that, they continued with their lives and threw a party. The dead man’s father, fiancée and school teacher where in the list of guests. One of the killers named Brandon became very daring so the school teacher began to suspect. At the end he realized of what the two men had done.
Despite the fact that the audience knows everything from the start of the movie and there is not clue of puzzling in it, they keep attached to their seats, moved by a deep suspense lead by the two arrogant men and their misbehavior.
