Watch Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor

Madisyn 2022-09-12 20:06:35

The Criterion Collection 19#

This should be a more solid B-movie

mission: disguise, weakness.

A woman whose face is hidden in feathers - "a kind of bird.

Sexual Assault on Sister - "Mental Hospital.

It is interesting to write the narration to express psychological reflections (for psychiatric determination and changes in the use of discipline) .

Visualizing the psychological change directly is where the change lies.

The dream state, at this time, the dream state was still juxtaposed with the actor's sleeping face, and it was difficult for the audience at that time to switch their psychological state directly to the dream state. (Variation of viewers)

Attempting to reproduce mental illusions of different people is quite ahead of its time. At the same time, it also shows the classic memory of Americans at that time, memory and the impulse to recall are the key cornerstones of the self.

The film is completely insinuating various distorted parts of American society at that time. The design of black people pretending to be the KKK to hunt down black people is very clever.

Dr. Bodden, the fear of incapacitation.

When a person's ego splits, so do personality and memory.

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Shock Corridor quotes

  • Cathy: Do you think I like singing in that sewer with a hot light on my navel? I'm doing it because it pays more than shorthand or clerking or typing.

  • Cathy: Johnny, you've gotta' be crazy to want to be committed to an insane asylum to solve a murder.