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Last Topic: 7:17:41pm, 06/10/2021
Last Post: 7:56:27am, 08/13/2022
DirtBasedSoap posted...
shut up you dont even know what that word means
The Internet has ruined a lot of words.
This is indeed one of them.
Entity13 posted...
It has to do with an old B&W era movie in which a man who has committed a crime (murder, iirc?) has to convince a woman (I think his wife?) that she is going mad so that he can get away with said crime. The primary means if said faux-madness was to mess with the lights, which were run by gas. Make them dim or flicker, but pretend everything is fine and not changing at all, thus inducin[g the idea that nothing is at it seems.
That's not actually the plot.
The flickering lights (and the noises she hears in the house) aren't a deliberate attempt to make her think she's crazy, as much as they are side-effects of what the guy is actually up to (looking through the attic to try and find hidden jewels). The lights flicker because he's turning on the lights in the attic, and because the lights are gas-lights, it causes the flow of gas to shift and causes the lights downstairs to visibly change. The noises are him moving things around in the attic.
He IS doing things to make her think she's crazy (so he can get her committed and out of the house so he can search more blatantly), but the lights actually have nothing to do with his plan.---
"This calls for a particularly subtle blend of psychology and extreme violence."
--- Vyvyan, The Young Ones