Spellbound
May. 4th, 2014 03:46 pmStepping back a year from Notorious, but sticking with Hitchcock directing from a Ben Hecht script…
I'm not sure whether the introduction of Ingrid Bergman, being sexually harrassed by a colleague, is an appalling indictment of the culture, or hilarious pwnage as she just laughs in his face and takes the piss out of him. This being Bergman, I'm inclined towards the latter...
Also, it's a bit, influenced, shall we say, by Pabst's 1926 Geheimnisse eine Seele (Secrets Of A Soul), isn't it?
I'm not sure whether the introduction of Ingrid Bergman, being sexually harrassed by a colleague, is an appalling indictment of the culture, or hilarious pwnage as she just laughs in his face and takes the piss out of him. This being Bergman, I'm inclined towards the latter...
Also, it's a bit, influenced, shall we say, by Pabst's 1926 Geheimnisse eine Seele (Secrets Of A Soul), isn't it?