Well, the change in the weather gave me a migraine, so it's a day of lounging and movies for me. I've got five to review, and I'm not going to review them in the order I watched them. I ended my evening with The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), which I've seen numerous times. Ray Harryhausen movies are my happy place.
Back to Possessed. I found this just scrolling through the classics on Tubi. It's the story of Louise, a woman who is found wandering the streets looking for a man named David. She eventually collapses and is taken to a psychiatric ward. The doctor has a magic concoction to pull her out of her stupor, and she tells her story of love, fear and paranoia. Things aren't always the way she sees them, and she doesn't interpret things the way ordinary people would. She knows she has problems, but she refuses help.
The movie was pretty interesting. I saw that Joan Crawford spent time in mental wards and talked to psychiatrists to prepare for the role. She also said it was the hardest role she ever played. I can well understand that. It's hard to imagine not being able to differentiate an illusion from reality. The mind really is a fragile thing. Good Movie!
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