![]() Having eloped at Lake Como and in an effort to satisfy Gregory’s dream of a house on a London square, Paula returns to the “house of horror” on Thornton Square. Party City called: it wants its hat returned immediately ( Source ) Paula gets increasingly uncomfortable and practically leaps off the train when it stops, straight into the arms of thwaite, thwaite don’t tell me: Gregory!Įllen : It’s important to establish how comfortable and capable Paula is traveling internationally by herself, so that later we’re just as confused as she is when she’s chided for trying to do things like “go for a walk” or “put coals on the fire” or “be perceptive to changes in the level of light in the room!” On the way, we meet good old “Bloodthirsty” Bessie Thwaites, a gossipy resident of Thornton Square, who offers up some digestive, excuse me, “diggy” biscuits and eagerly tells her carriage-mate of the unsolved muder that took place back home. ![]() She and her striped bustle rush out to meet him, then subsequently rush on a train to Lake Como to take time to think alone to consider his marriage proposal 1. Tyler : You could say she’s had quite the gas-fright.Ī decade later, Paula’s kindly old opera Maestro informs her that recently she looks happier and is singing worse, prompting her to confirm that yes: she’s in love! Turns out the object of her affection is accompanist Gregory Anton, and they’ve been together for a breathtaking two weeks. She is now on her way to Italy to train to be an opera singer herself and hopefully escape the trauma she just witnessed. This is fourteen-year-old Paula, and she has just found her aunt murdered in their home at No. The score is rife with drama-inducing chords and eerie tones of the theremin as a shell-shocked young woman in mourning garb departs in a carriage. The lamps are being lit in London’s Thornton Square, and the light is bright enough to see a newspaper proclaiming that the strangler of world-famous opera singer Alice Alquist is still at large. ![]() Long Version (modified from Wikipedia and formatted to fit your screen): His obsessive interest in the home rises from a secret that may require driving his wife insane. Short Version (courtesy of IMDb): Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. I think you were actually the one who told me of its cinematic origins, so I’m eager to watch some manipulation! I mean … uh, let’s get into Plots & Feelings! Speaking of being a man, I was largely and blissfully ignorant of the term and concept of “gaslighting” until it became so widespread (particularly during the peak of the #MeToo movement) that I had to look it up. Tyler : Hello, it is I: a nice man who has come along and given you a spreadsheet-based push to watch this movie. Once I learned what it meant and where it came from, I put the movie Gaslight on my personal watchlist and waited for a nice man to come along to actually push me to watch it. I did not know what it meant, and for a while I continually got it mixed up with a bar in Houston called Gaslamp, for which I think I can be forgiven because the aforementioned bar also boasted terrible vibes. What, if anything, did we know about this coming attraction before we watched?Įllen : The term “gaslighting” started coming across my desk circa 2015 or so.
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