Ouyang Jingru said that the movie - from the Oscar movie "Under the Gaslight" to see the horror of mind control

If a girl who was originally confident, excellent, lively, mentally normal, and able to think independently, was manipulated, brainwashed, and tortured by a demonic man using psychology, guess what, how long would it take for the girl to become an inferior, suspicious, completely incapacitated, or even completely collapsed?

I have not written movies for a long time, and today I specially recommend a good movie, so that more parents can see how a devil-like man can force an independent and beautiful girl into a neurosis, these details and processes may also allow you to glimpse the psychological process of some masochists.

The movie is called Under the Gaslight.

The heroine, Paula, is a beautiful and charming girl, although orphaned, but inherited a rich aunt - a famous opera singer Alice's large inheritance, house, jewelry, famous paintings and everything else that ordinary people envy.

Ten years ago, Aunt Alice was murdered, and the young Paula had to leave the murder house and go to Italy to learn to sing with one of her aunt's musician friends. Originally, on her terms, she could have performed well on stage.

However, she suddenly fell in love with a passionate, romantic, talented, handsome pianist named Anton. He convinces her that she is the only woman he wants to spend his life with.

Paula, who has no sense of security and no life mentor, naturally did not escape the sweet cave of the other party, and soon married, and at the suggestion of the other party, returned to the old house left to her by her aunt who had been away for ten years.

She thought it was the beginning of a happy life after the princess married the prince, but in fact, this was the beginning of hell life.

As soon as Anton returned to the old house, he suddenly told her that her memory was getting worse and worse recently, and she always lost things.

Soon he proved himself right, he gave her an ancestral brooch, repeatedly told her not to lose it, and then, without incident, she lost it.

He told everyone that Paula was ill, the cook in the house, the maid, Paula's neighbor, even the people who had taken care of her as a child, and then created all kinds of illusions that she was sick to prove that what he said was true—for example, the little portrait that had been hanging on the wall was missing, and he said that Paula had done it; he let the maid in to add to the fire, saying that Paula had let the maid in.

Paula not only believed in her forgetfulness, but also slowly realized that she was very ill, she blamed herself, was miserable, had low self-esteem, was often in self-doubt, and did not even come out of the door.

Her "illness" and "forgetfulness" finally exploded under the meticulous "care" of her beloved husband.

One of Paula's fondest childhood memories, the Dalov people, recently held a music reception where the Paula couples were invited, and without Paula's consent, Anton replied with a letter saying that Paula was ill and could not attend the banquet as scheduled.

Everyone is deeply helpless that such a young and beautiful girl is always sick and does not see the day.

But before the concert, Paula dressed up and insisted on going to the Dalov concert, and she remembered that when her aunt was busy, it was always Dalov who took care of her.

Anton had no choice but to follow Paula to the concert temporarily.

Great joy for guests and hosts.

During the concert, Anton suddenly said that his watch was missing, and without accident, he found it in Paula's handbag.

Paula finally collapsed in full view of everyone, not only was she forgetful, but she was also a thief, stealing her husband's watch, crying loudly, and everyone was shocked.

After returning home, Anton taught Paula a good lesson, saying that he did not want her to have contact with the outside world, just to protect her dignity and reputation, originally behind closed doors, she was sick, few people knew, at most it was just a guess, now it is good, give people a real hammer, known all over the city. Not only that, he also told Paula that her biological mother was mentally ill, died in a mental hospital, and even her head was missing when she died.

Paula was in more pain.

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A healthy, happy, charming, lively girl, under the careful inducement and design of a man, in a short period of time, became a completely different mental patient.

Scary? That's the power of real language.

So, why is it called "Under the Gas Lamp"?

After Paula and her husband moved back to her aunt's "murder house", she would often find that the gas lamps in the house were flickering on and off at night, and there was always a strange noise on the roof, and no one else could hear it, only she could hear it.

When her husband told her that she was suspicious of ghosts, she believed even more that she was ill.

Of course, old movies always punish evil, not to mention this is still a 1944 movie!

Brian, the young detective who has been tracking down Alice's murder, reveals all this, and Paula finally sees the secret in her husband's deeply locked drawer, where there is a letter sent by a man named Sergey Bowa two days before her aunt's death--she once showed it to him, but he said it was a fabrication letter; he also knew that her husband was not called Anton, he was called Serge Bowa, and he had a wife in Prague; and he knew that the gas lamp in the house was always bright and dim, which was her husband's masterpiece.

Paula then understood that this marriage that made her fall in love at first sight was nothing more than a trap set by a murderer to seize her aunt's four valuable gems, and her forgetfulness, lying, suspiciousness, and even mental illness were all psychological manipulations of the murderer himself.

Anton, who is poked and tied up by Detective Brian, also wants to perform a control spell, so that Paula can take a knife and cut the rope that binds him, so that he can escape.

Paula opened the draw, saw the brooch that her husband had given to her, but was lost by herself, she used her human way to heal his body, clearly holding a knife in her hand, but deliberately said that she was mentally ill like her mother, loved to hide things, old things, and could not find them...

We really hope that in reality, it is a smart girl like Paula who can get lost, and we hope that there is a responsible and intelligent young detective like Brian who will make the world evil and evil.

But the reality is that many of the controlled and controlled people are trapped in it and cannot extricate themselves, just like the female student cadre of the institution of higher learning mentioned at the beginning of the article.

Not only does this kind of mind control exist in love, but there are other aspects, typical of which include parent-child relationships and workplace relationships.

In psychological research, this relationship controls the emotional manipulation of the other party by "distorting the truth in the eyes of the victim", which is named "gas lamp manipulation method", which is explained in the jane book: by constantly instilling false, distorted, one-sided, negative thoughts to break through the victim's psychological defense line, so as to carry out emotional manipulation behavior that is in line with their own interests.

For this film, Ingrid Bergman won Best Actress at the 17th Academy Awards in 1945 and Best Actress in a Motion Picture at the 2nd Global Awards.

But my favorite thing is what she says to her murderer husband at the end of the movie: If I am not crazy, I will pity and protect you for what you do, but because I am crazy, I hate you; because I am crazy, I betray you; because I am crazy, I am full of joy, without a trace of pity and remorse, watch your glory disappear with you...