The film tells a story of personality and dreams, based on Freud's psychoanalytic theory. The male protagonist was traumatized in childhood, which led to his realistic and neurotic anxiety, the conflict between the ego and the id, which resulted in motivational amnesia, forgetting the events of his childhood and the events he encountered with Dr. Edward. But this kind of memory doesn't really exist anymore, it's just that the hero himself is reluctant to think about it due to various reasons such as fear and self-blame, but many white and striped objects in life will still stimulate him. This is a defense mechanism of the hero. Later, the heroine helped him retrieve his memory through the analysis of the hero's dream, and deduced the real murderer.
In addition to this big theme of schizophrenia, the film also has many details related to psychology. For example, at the beginning of the film, Miss Mary, the first person to come for psychological counseling, is actually a person who does not believe in psychological counseling subconsciously. She has a strong sense of precaution, hates men, and has emotional disorders. Such a person may be difficult Improved through counseling because she was reluctant to open up to a counselor. Secondly, another Mr. Gans who came for psychological counseling, he suffered from a criminal complex and was accompanied by strong hallucinations, the psychological counselor used hypnosis and dream analysis to help him treat. In addition, there is also a very ironic plot in the film, that is, when the heroine receives the help of a plainclothes policeman at the station, the policeman claims to be a person who has a deep understanding of psychology, and speculates that the heroine is out to find her husband of. The film highlights the fact that the fake psychologist plainclothes policemen play tricks in front of the real psychologist heroine. It is also ironic that the outside world has misunderstood psychology, that is, laymen have always thought that psychology is reading minds, or observing words.
"Dr. Edward" was directed by the famous director Hitchcock, and many scenes in the film were cleverly used. For example, at the end of the film, which is also the climax of the film, when the murderer takes out a revolver and points it at the heroine, the camera is also from the murderer's perspective. His appetite was lifted, and his eyes followed the position of the muzzle until the heroine walked out of the room and closed the door, and the muzzle slowly turned to aim at the camera, that is, at the murderer himself, and then pressed the trigger. Also, when the male protagonist fell ill at the hostess teacher's house, he went downstairs with a sharp weapon in his hand and drank the milk given to him by the hostess teacher. The teacher, let the audience think that the male protagonist is going to kill the teacher next, but the truth is that the teacher has already seen it and put sleeping pills in the milk glass.
The film is about two hours long, with climaxes and reversals, and psychological knowledge such as dreams is added. It is a very good suspense film.
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