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Clemens 2022-04-21 09:02:28

Write down a few details that I feel deeply about this film: 1. Strong close-up shots: When the fake doctor Edward and the heroine first met at the dining table, the camera gave two people a close-up shot of their facial expressions, The eyes of the two people met, and a time-lapse effect was deliberately created. For a moment, everyone around was hidden, suggesting that the two fell in love at first sight and were about to start an unusual relationship; 2. The smoothness and composition of the long-shot mise-en-scene Wonderful: The fake doctor Edward and the female doctor stayed at the professor's house. The fake doctor Edward got up late at night and was mentally stimulated. He took a knife and went down the stairs. It is smooth and exciting, the camera's line of sight holds the knife's hand as the foreground, watching the whole process of the professor getting up to communicate with the fake Edward and giving him a glass of milk, with the background music and the detailed description of the background of the story, to arouse the audience's tension. 3. A cleverly conceived subjective shot: the heroine exposes the murder of the director of the mental hospital, the director takes out a pistol and points it at the heroine, the heroine analyzes the director's situation and tries to wake the director to stop the murder. During the period of leaving the room, the camera lens watched the process of the heroine leaving the room through the hand holding the pistol in the foreground. At the end of the shot, holding the grabbing hand and turning to the audience, the audience realized that this scene was subjective by the dean. viewpoint.

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  • Constance Petersen: All analysts have to be psychoanalyzed by other analysts before they start practicing.

    John Ballantine: Ahhh, that's to make sure that they're not too crazy.

  • John Ballantine: If there's anything I hate, it's a smug woman.