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Subject: Re: Obsession/The Hidden Room Author: Lois [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 07:49:25 01/26/06 Thu In reply to: Susan 's message, "Re: Obsession/The Hidden Room" on 02:04:59 01/25/06 Wed There are so many little plot holes (and gaping big ones!) but this film fits nicely into the whole 1940s/1950s British domestic melodramas that were doing the rounds. Usually unvolving a faithless wife, a husband who thinks up the 'perfect murder' for her lover (or lovers) but is foiled at the last moment by the dogged detectives who usually admire the husband's intelligence and understand his motives. Eric Portman got to kill his wife's lover and frame her other lover for it, therefore killing two birds with one stone in "Dear Murderer"(1946) which is very similar to "Obsession". But then the wife manipulates poor old Portman and he has to undo the perfect murder and she turns out to be the villain of the piece! The motive of maintaining honour and decency whilst psychologically torturing the wife was all the rage! Of the plot holes: Why didn't Clive just divorce Storm? OR cut off her money supply? There are so many more... [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: Obsession/The Hidden Room Author: Susan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 22:26:37 01/27/06 Fri "Why didn't Clive just divorce Storm?" Funny you should ask that ... I just saw a report on the NBC newsmagazine "Dateline" last week about a guy who had his wife murdered because, he said, he "didn't want to put her through the pain of a divorce"! (This is real life!) But Clive does seem a bit too intelligent for that kind of reasoning. Then again, maybe the stress of being a psychiatrist drove him insane! If he's insane, that could explain away a lot. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]