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SpellboundIn the film Spellbound Dr. Murchison, the head up of Green Manors kind asylum, is retiring to be replaced by Dr. Edwards, a celebrated psychiatrist. Dr. Edwards arrives and is immediately attracted to Dr. Constance Peterson. Nevertheless, it soon becomes apparent that Dr. Edwards is a paranoid amnesic fraud. He runs from the police and Dr. Peterson is compelled to key out and help him bring forward what happened to the real Dr. Edwards. Spellbound was non a film noir. Crime and detection wasnt viewed in a dark and urban environment. The only part that was dark was when Dr. Peterson and the fraud Dr. Edwards where on the train to Rome, Georgia. Dr Peterson was trying to pry memories out of him. I admit that rump Ballantine was a bit cynical, but only when he was trying to remember what had happened to him. Otherwise, he was very friendly and sociable.High contrast lighting was use once, that I noticed. It was used when Dr. Peterson and Dr. Brulov where analyzing Dr. Edwards dream. They figured out why he was panicked of white with black lines. Then they showed a picture of the outside where it was snowing and at that place were sled marks in the snow. Even though I dont recall any low camera angles, I do know that they had deep focus on that same shot.The hero in this film was Dr. Constance Peterson. She was not ruthless and greedy and neither was the assumed criminal. Dr. Peterson was disillusion because of her love for John Ballantine, but it destructed her army of logic not her sight to see that John was a criminal. She was but wasnt alienated from nightclub. The society that she knows is the people she works with, but since she works in a mental asylum she is alienated from normal society. Dr. Peterson works against the police only to find out what actually happened to the real Dr. Edwards, but she is not a fly-by-night to the crime. Personally, I wouldnt call her psychologically wounded or virtuously ambiguous, just hard headed.