04 December 2020

The Dark Mirror (1946)

Olivia de Havilland captivates in this bw flick, her only foray into the noir genre. She plays twins, one a lover, the other a killer.
The murder happens at the beginning and the rest of the movie presents an extended character study and a master course in gaslighting. I get super-uncomfortable during intense gaslighting scenes, so I have to admit I fast forwarded one scene. The obsessed detective and the unethical psychologist try to figure out which twin dunnit. Overall I'll give this movie a thumbs up rating, despite the egregious use of myth and fallacy instead of science for almost every "factoid" mentioned about twins.

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