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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Extended Reading

Shock Corridor quotes

  • Pagliacci: I didn't want my wife to die like Sloan. So I gently sang her to death... Good night, Mr. Barret.

  • Pagliacci: [Feeding John numerous pieces of gum] Come on, John. Chew, chew, chew!... See, if you chew, your jaw muscles, they get tired, see? And then the other muscles, they get the message, and they get tired too, see? And before you know it, you're sleeping. And, when we're asleep, nobody can tell a sane man from an insane man, huh?

    Pagliacci: [Chuckles] Good night, Mr. Barret.

    Johnny Barrett: Good night, Mr. Pagliacci.