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{{quote|"The Fault... is Not in Our Stars,
But in Ourselves..."|[[William Shakespeare]], quoted at the beginning of the movie}}
''Spellbound'' (1945) is a psychological thriller directed by [[Alfred Hitchcock]], with a score composed by [[Miklos Rozsa]]. Dr. Constance Peterson ([[Ingrid Bergman]]) is a psychoanalyst at a mental institution which is about to
The story was adapted from the novel ''The House of Dr. Edwards'' (1927), by Hilary Saint George Saunders. The movie is notable for its use of Freudian psychology and dream sequences designed by [[Salvador Dali]].
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* [[All Psychology Is Freudian]]: Which is fair for its day, since there weren't many other styles of psychoanalysis when the novel was written in the 1920s.
* [[Amnesiac Dissonance]]:
* [[Clear Their Name]]:
* [[Dead Person Impersonation]]: {{spoiler|The person who we are introduced to as Dr. Edwardes is actually John Ballantyne, who believed he was Edwardes after losing his memories, and we come to find out Edwardes has been murdered}}.
* [[Dream Sequence]]: Designed by Salvador Dali, no less.
* [[Flashback Nightmare]]: The dream sequences in the movie are a mind-screwy, symbolic version of this.
* [[Have You Told Anyone Else?]]: A unique example of a person ''knowingly'' placing
* [[Mind Screw]]: The dreams.
* [[Single
* [[Splash of Color]]: The movie is filmed in black and white except for a few frames at the end that are filmed in red when {{spoiler|the villain commits suicide}}.
* [[Trauma
* [[The Walls Have Eyes]]: One of the dreams features a wall covered in eyes.
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