On the first day of school, finding a place to sit is often the biggest obstacle you can face. You can't sit with just anyone. It has to be with someone we know, and if not, we ask for their permission because we're technically intruding on their meal. It might sound silly, but it's true. Food is part of life; essential, and we can't share a meal with just anyone. Alfred Hitchcock illustrates the intimacy that a meal brings to the plot in his films Rope and The Man Who Knew Too Much. Thomas C. Foster in “Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion.” states that meals are forms of communion that function as catalysts in a plot to expose relationships between people. He argues that a “banal, overused and rather boring situation” of a meal must have an ulterior motive for the author, because the meal itself is simply a meal. The logic behind Foster's statement that "whenever people eat or drink together, it is communion", can be extended to support Hitchcock's use of meals as a visual representation or as a culmination of affairs and murder In Hitchcock's film Rope, Brandon serves Phillip champagne to celebrate the completion of their goal: to kill David. Phillip participates in the activity, which is often shared between those who collectively celebrate a mutual success, as if to demonstrate that they are on the same page. Brandon's wave. Foster would describe it as Phillip reassuring Brandon by saying, "I'm with you, sharing this moment with you, [and] feeling a bond of community with you." but as we know with Hitchcock, there is always more to the plot than that. Phillip's body is aligned with Brandon's at this point, yet their actions are not sim...... middle of paper.. . or drinking together, is communion,” can be extended to further support Hitchcock's use of meals as substitutes for marriage, sex, and murder. There isn't a Hitchcock film in which food wasn't an issue at some point. In his films Rope and The Man Who Knew Too Much food was used to visually highlight relationship problems, as well as the occasion of murder. Through the theme of food Hitchcock dramatizes some of his most familiar concerns, but he does so in an extremely complex and varied manner. In Hitchcock's work as a whole, roast chickens tend to cause problems for the characters, as in Rope and The Man Who Knew Too Much. The logic behind Foster's statement that "whenever people eat or drink together, it is communion", can be extended to support Hitchcock's use of meals as a visual representation or as a culmination of affairs and murder..