Diary entries forSpellbound
Spellbound
gregory peck, i'm on my knees
Spellbound
As always, starting the new year with Hitchcock. This is simply fantastic, proving once again why he’s my favourite director of all time. The suspense and twists make for a gripping watch. Both leads are obviously great and all the supporting cast are fantastic as well. This is classic Hitchcock which I would recommend to everyone. Happy 2026.
Spellbound
they didn't get cast together again because they know they could begin ww3
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I wish Ingrid Bergman was my therapist. All of my mental illnesses would be cured easily.
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"Apparently, the mind is never too ill to make jokes about psychoanalysis.” After watching Scream movies and Love Island these past few days, this film was refreshing!! Spellbound has an interesting premise, and cool ending shots (if you've seen this y'know what I'm talking about), and a dream sequence based on designs by Salvador Dali that is out of this world - honestly it is wonderful and beautiful especially this particular frame (https://twitter.com/OnePerfectShot/status/986439232674811907?s=09). I wish my subconscious coded messages in this type of surreal and creative imagery. The reveals weren't all that great tbh (in terms of storyline) and had little to no shock value. However, it was nice to see how much Hitchcock had since then improved and truly honed the art of storytelling especially in terms of creating psychological-mystery-thriller masterpieces to give us Rear Window and Psycho in the later years. I can't wait to watch Vertigo ;) Also, Gregory Peck was so prettyyy in this that it was almost distracting in the beginning. P.S. Constance, I know exactly what he did in Rome!
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i spent the whole movie taking pictures of Ingrid Bergman with my phone as if it were a concert but you can't blame me because LORD HAVE MERCY, if i ever rewatch this rest assured that my review will only be "I be watching 'Spellbound' (1945) with my tits out" and i’ll mean every single word of that
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“Women make the best psychoanalysts until they fall in love. After that they make the best patients.” The movie is not as thrilling to me as far as the handful of thrillers I've seen...but it did keep me on the slight edge of my seat, so there's that. Also, if the "I can fix them" trope has a blueprint, this one's it. It was quite a film after all. Gregory and Ingrid's chemistry was beautiful (and they are both beautiful, I had a bi panic again). The Salvador Dali dream sequence was nice to watch. Yeah, nice film overall, could've been a bit more.
Spellbound
El análisis psicoanalítico ingenioso con el que Hitchcock lleva al espectador al rumbo de una intriga constante se convierte en una fascinante historia de amor que eleva la puesta en escena del maestro del suspense, Ingrid Bergman y Gregory Peck no podían hacer nada más que brillar en esta entretenida triquiñuela del Gran Hitchcock.
