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Obsession

Author:
Sue G.

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Date Posted: 21:57:22 02/05/07 Mon

Has anyone noticed something really odd about the beginning of the movie Obsession? The part where Clive goes home to sit and wait for his wife and her lover to return. When he arrives home by taxi he goes to the door and rings the doorbell a couple of times for the butler, Aitkin, to let him in (he didn't have a key). Well, Aitkin happens to be quite hard of hearing and wears some sort of an apparatus that must be turned on in order for him to be able to hear (I guess this was the beginnig of hearing aids?). My question is how did he know that the doorbell was rung when obviously he was awakened from bed and wouldn't be wearing the hearing device.
Then even stranger, was that Aitkin managed to hear the doorbell while asleep but never heard when Clive shot the gun off in the living room.
Am I being too picky? Or did I miss something?

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Susan
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Date Posted: 21:01:56 02/09/07 Fri

LOL ... interesting. I've actually never caught that before, but then I haven't watched the movie in a long time. (I've never had a good, clean copy of it till recently.) But that is a bit of a blooper, isn't it? Today, of course, deaf people have devices, such as flashing lights, that alert them to the doorbell and telephone, but I suppose they wouldn't have had such a thing back in the '40s. (Unless he had some other type of apparatus?)

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