La fosse aux serpents

Titre original : The Snake Pit

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Olivia de Havilland in La fosse aux serpents (1948)

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Psychological Drama Drama Mystery

Un sentiment de culpabilité profondément ancré rend une jeune écrivaine si folle qu'elle doit être admise dans un établissement psychiatrique, mais le traitement qu'elle subit ne fera qu'agg... Tout lireUn sentiment de culpabilité profondément ancré rend une jeune écrivaine si folle qu'elle doit être admise dans un établissement psychiatrique, mais le traitement qu'elle subit ne fera qu'aggraver son état.Un sentiment de culpabilité profondément ancré rend une jeune écrivaine si folle qu'elle doit être admise dans un établissement psychiatrique, mais le traitement qu'elle subit ne fera qu'aggraver son état.

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Récompensé par 1 Oscar
- 10 victoires et 9 nominations au total

Anecdotes
Thirteen states changed their laws concerning mental health issues after the film's release.

Gaffes
After the young Virginia smashes the head of the soldier doll (that reminds her of her father) into several pieces, she is later seen carrying the unbroken doll on the night of her father's death. The intact doll again appears in the apartment that she lives in as an adult. However, Virginia most likely received a new doll of the same kind when her father discovered the other one was no longer intact.

Citations
Robert Cunningham: Tell me, what have you been doing all these months?
Virginia Stuart Cunningham: Working 18 hours a day and being lonely 24.

Connexions
Featured in Biography: Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker (1995)

Bandes originales
Overture
(1842) (uncredited)
from "Tannhäuser"
Composed by Richard Wagner
Played at a concert

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Mental Illness

Virginia Cunningham (Olivia de Havilland) finds herself in a state insane asylum... and cannot remember how she got there. In flashback, her husband Robert relates their courtship, marriage, and her developing symptoms.

Stephen King says this film terrified him as a child, because he felt that he could go crazy at any moment (and worst of all, not even be aware that he was crazy). And, indeed, there is something terrifying about this film. While many films have taken place in mental hospital, I think very few really address how normal most mentally ill people are most of the time, or the fine balance between sane and insane.

I do not know much about Olivia de Havilland, but she really pulled all the stops here. If she is capable of this level of intensity, she probably should have been a bigger star than she was.