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Gaslight 1944
Domestic dramas in which the house is a prison and an evil, scheming man is the jailer are infinitely more frightening to me than any horror movie could be. Charles Boyer is the perfect devil, but Ingrid Bergman is everything and more as the tormented angel pushed to the limit. I was simply overwhelmed by her performance, utterly wrenching in her portrayal of a will broken by cruelty, the combination of desperate helplessness and a browbeaten acceptance of reason’s futility. The frantic…
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Dark Passage 1947
Closing out my Bogie and Bacall marathon with the movie I feel is talked about the least out of the four that they co-starred in. The first half is riveting, though that’s not to say the second half is bad. It’s just that something I’ve learned about myself this year is that I really, really like point of view shots (or maybe I already knew this from my last viewing of 1931’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, whenever that was?) Physically taking on the perspective of a faceless fugitive feels so fresh, and Bogart’s weary narration rounds it out perfectly
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The Big Sleep 1946
Endlessly entertaining with some of the snappiest dialogue ever. I was honestly intimidated by all of the reviews saying how confusing the story is, and while I definitely would not survive if I had to explain the plot in detail at gunpoint, it doesn’t even matter. Marlowe is Bogart’s most charismatic, and there are so many great scenes between he and Lauren Bacall (all of them, basically)—that’s why you’re here and you know it!!!!
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Waterloo Bridge 1940
I’m a heartless cynic in the sense that I kind of hate we-just-met-let’s-get-married plots (sorry) and so I could not engage myself as much with the central relationship as I did with the relationships between the women of the film. Don’t get me wrong, Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh actually do carve out a convincing and moving love story for themselves, but the suffering of and sympathy for the female characters is of more glaring interest to me. To be…
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