Gaslight

I used this movie for work. I was teaching clients about being gaslit and how the name comes from the play and movie. They loved it and said it really helped them understand the term and what I was trying to teach them.

A good classic to watch and be reminded of

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If you’ve not seen Gaslight (1944) you’re in for a treat: a classic film that became such a part of our society it’s title is used for actual reference to a certain human behavior: gaslighting. If you want to learn more about it, a quick trip to Wikipedia will give you the definition of gaslighting and how it’s attached to this film, Gaslight (1944). But in essence, it’s when someone does things to make you feel like you’re wrong and perhaps even crazy.Something you’ll watch play out throughout this film. Staring Ingrid Bergman as Paula and Charles Boyer as Gregory, follow his attempt to make Paula think herself crazy as he contrives to... you’ll have to watch. My wife and I have seen it a couple times (I’d seen it before on Sunday afternoon movies on TV), finding it both fascinating and infuriating. It drives my wife nuts (irony) how Boyer’s Gregory repeatedly says “Paula” throughout - I use it to mess with her, calling her Paula repeatedly - we have been married a long time. The point being, it’s a movie that makes you think and cringe at the reality of this story and how too real it can feel and be. Well done, watch the mental decline of a woman led to believe what she sees with her own eyes or knows, she comes to believe are not true. In the first film appearance by a strikingly young and beautiful Angela Lansbury, this story takes Paula and the viewer on a journey through the mind into a place of full on belief that what’s real is not. And it makes you - the audience - perhaps remember someone who may have tried to do the same to you (I’ve known a few people who figured things out in their lives from watching the movie).In the end, this movie is so well done it drives me crazy - making me mad for the woman being abused, but also seeing it done so well as to elicit such a response speaks to great filmmaking. We love it - and hate it - which makes Gaslight (1944) a great film for us.

Plot:Twice orphaned girl (first by mother and then by murdered aunt who raised her) marries foreign man while abroad only to return to the house her aunt raised her in. Things start disappearing. Even the audience doesn't know how they disappear. "Weird" stuff starts happening like things being moved around the house. Even the audience doesn't know. Noises are heard upstairs where no one is allowed. The gas lights lower at night as a sign that someone else is in the house using gas--straining the supply so the lights lower in other rooms. The husband mysteriously disappears every evening. He has the top floor of the house blocked off for some odd reason. The aunt's murder was not really solved. Scotland Yard is introduced talking about the case. The husband begins to think the wife is mad. The wife thinks she is mad. The audience questions her sanity.Comments:Classic murder/thriller mystery. The aunts murder is not really the focus but the cause of the events. Is it the mad wife? Is the it the loose maid who you question is messing around with the husband? Is it the weird foreign husband? Classic mystery. While I really can't stand watching movies about weak people being manipulated this was a pretty good movie. It was entertaining like movies should be. Nothing scandalous. Nothing shocking. Nothing offensive. Just a good story. And of course in the end all wrongs are righted so you don't have that miserable feeling like modern day movies and TV show would leave you feeling just so that they can be "different"--have an unpredictable ending. This movie could have taken the turn that modern day soap operas have where the evil characters continue to victimize the good characters where the good characters are just that--victims and annoying. But it doesn't. You also start to think that perhaps this is a precursor to the modern day slasher movies where the damsel in distress is a mindless, helpless, quivering rabbit, leaving you irritated at how stupid the character is. But right before you want to give up on it it turns itself around. Of course in this era you have the dramatic music that is supposed to highten the emotions which is kinda silly in some spots. You have the over the top acting in some spots--the looks, the quick turns, the close up of the eyes, etc. But all in all this is a good movie and these things are just minor distractions.

Soy fan de los clásicos de oro del cine, y cuando supe que Warner Archive Collection había restaurado en formato Blu-Ray la película "Gaslight" o Luz de Gas, la compré de inmediato. Se ve espectacular, mejor que nunca, y trae también como material extra la película original de 1940. Llegó rápido y en perfectas condiciones.

Das Produkt ist einwandfrei, die Lieferung überaus schnell.Allerdings sollte man genau schauen, was man bestellt. Ich habe wohl nicht genau hingesehen, denn ich war von deutscher Sprache ausgegangen. Der komplette Film ist in Englisch.

Ce beau classique n'a pas pris une ride, on ne s'ennuie pas une seconde dans cette belle atmosphère victorienne, jusqu'au dénouement libérateur ....

Es un clásico por la que ganó su primer Oscar Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer está muy bien en el papel así como Joseph Cotten, es la primera película de Angela Lansbury. Además incluye la versión inglesa de Gaslight, también excelente. Recomendable

I have wanted to add this movie to my collection for some time and was thrilled to find it, being one of the few I liked that starred Charles Boyer. Very well acted, enjoyed camera work, darker scenery, authentic settings, and good plot. Great acting. Pleased to have this DVD. Thank you.