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The Snake Pit (1948)
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"I didn't expect much from The Snake Pit. I was told from the back of the DVD that it was the first Hollywood film to deal with mental illness and a serious way, and was expecting something like Gentleman's Agreement with insane people instead of Jews. But I was surprised at how harrowing and involving this film is. Even with the constraints of the Production Code, the film manages to be a disturbing excursion into the darkest corners of the human mind- and the human heart. The movie opens as Virginia Cunningham (Olivia de Havilland) finds herself confined to a state hospital by her husband Robert (Mark Stevens). In a flashback from Robert's point of view, we learn that the couple was basically happy despite Virginia's odd behavior until her symptoms started getting worse. Odd memory lapses and becoming hysterical about seemingly insignificant details become daily occurrences, until Virginia finally tries to stab her husband with no apparent provocation. The rest of the film is told ... "
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