Answer:
In the excerpt From the essay "Let Em Play God." by the author Alfred hitch he calls the art of suspense in his movies "letting the audience play GOD." He Calls it "letting the audience play god" because unlike a whodunit. he lets the audience know who the murder is in the beginning of the movie. furthermore, Hitch intend this for this metaphor to mean that the audience is all knowing, just as if they where GOD