Wednesday, March 02, 2011

The Snake Pit - 1948 ***


After watching the brilliant 'The Heiress' with Olivia de Havilland I was hoping that I would enjoy this bizarre and emotional trip into a woman's mind inflicted with a mental health problem who is put in an asylum. de Havilland acted her socks off and was amazingly realistic in her role (she reportedly spent three months observing real mental patients in their surroundings to completely immerse herself in her character) but I wasn't as interested in this film as I was in 'The Heiress.' It just seemed to drag on a bit in my opinion, but maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind to watch it. It's one of the top films to watch though but I would recommend the first film instead of this.

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