Doctor Edward's behind-the-scenes video mainly consists of two parts, one is to interpret the dream designed by Salvador Dali, and the other is to emphasize psychoanalysis.
1. The consensus of many scholars is that this film, released in 1945, truly reflects the trauma caused by the retirement and homecoming moments at the end of World War II.
2. This is the first film to use psychoanalysis as a film theme, emphasizing that it is a truly reliable therapy, and director Hitchcock himself talked about this topic with many patients to understand their conditions
3. Producer David Selznick himself was undergoing psychiatric therapy in the 1940s. His older brother (a chronic alcoholic) died of alcoholism before filming, and his career began to decline.
4. The most famous surrealist dream passage was designed by master Salvador Dali, and Hitchcock specifically asked him to make the dream design
5. Freud met Dalí in 1938, calling him "a total lunatic"
6. The original storyboard had five scenes, but Selznick was unhappy and ended up shooting only three for the film
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