"Woman in the Window"
A WELLINGTON correspondent, "Imago," makes an interesting (though perhaps rather too subtle) point with reference to my review of The Woman in the Window (July 27 issue), She suggests that the anti-climax of the film, in which the whole thing was shown as a dream, was not just a concession tot#either the Hays Office or the mentality of the ‘‘kiddies" in the audience, but was instead a subtle psychological device. "I think," she says, ‘that the film sets out to show that crimes are ‘committed’ in the sub-conscious and made relevant in dreams; crimes which would not be perpetrated by an educated man (as portrayed by Edward G, Robinson) in ‘real life.’ In support of this argument, she says that it occurred to her later-admittedly not at the time-that the film does actually give hints that the whole action is taking place in a dream: for example, the professor’s rather unsteady walk when he (seemingly) leaves the club, the nearly automatic sleepwalker’s sureness with which he conducts the police to the place of the "crime," and his quiet, not to say casual, manner immediately after the "murder" has committed,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 327, 28 September 1945, Page 19
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