Because I watched it before going to bed, it is easy to clearly recall some features of this film in a semi-awake state after dawn. .
1. Female image
According to the analysis of feminist scholars, Hitchcock is "misogynist". Women, as the source of men's "castration anxiety", are usually resolved in two ways in the film. One is voyeurism. By investigating the guilt of women and eliminating or saving them, the dominant position of men is consolidated; it is fetishism, which shapes women into objects of desire for men, and men occupy them.
In "Dr. Edward," the situation seems to be reversed. The first is that men are in a "guilty" situation, and the second is that women become men's saviours. Dr. Peterson was undoubtedly wise, sharp, and brave. She believed in John's innocence through "women's intuition" and psychological analysis, and did everything in her power to finally eliminate John's mental illness and solve a mysterious case.
Here, isn't Hitchcock's misogyny yet to strike?
2. Femininity
"Hitchcock girls" are mostly like this, turning all living beings upside down. Peterson was constantly being courted by strange men just because he was thinking about meeting John under the hotel, and Hitchcock seemed to be overplaying it here. However, this is also the case in other films. The heroines of "Psycho" and "Rear Window" are all "heartbeat", and the film always spares no effort to portray the charm of the heroine.
Why create such a woman?
Can a heartthrob woman get the pleasure of watching a movie more than a man? Because the male protagonist will eventually possess or destroy the female protagonist.
3. Dreamland
The film's description of John's dreamland is full of surrealistic painting colors, which makes people think of Dali's "The Eternity of Memory" at once.
This reflects the interpenetration of various artistic fields at the time. Surrealism itself was also deeply influenced by Freud. Compared with other fields, the film seems to be a bit of an afterthought.
4. Holding the flag of Freud high, the
subtitles make it clear that this is a "psychoanalysis" movie. The whole movie is full of psychiatrists and mental patients. The name "Floyd" has been used countless times. lift. It's a bit blatant. The director's mentality of "devoting himself to psychoanalysis" is undoubtedly revealed. In the subsequent films, although there was no mention of "psychoanalysis", the whole film was devoted to psychoanalysis, and it was still a lot smarter.
5. The plot of the martial-arts couple
Peterson taking John to find Dr. Alex is very similar to Huang Rong taking Guo Jing to seek help from an expert in the arena. Alex's eyes were sharp, and he immediately saw that John was an extraordinary person. He controlled everything in his hands, and he was comparable to some of the "masters of martial arts" written by Jin Yong.
Peterson can ignore John's mental illness and is not afraid of falling into the quagmire of a murder case. He really has the temperament of a heroine. In fact, she is not Huang Rong, and it is difficult to perform light work and walk away, but she is still determined to carry out her love to the end. In addition to the director's arrangement, this also makes people even more admire Peterson's strong spiritual world that he has absolute confidence in his own wisdom.
Peterson is comparable to Huang Rong.
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