Pass the Popcorn: Movies from where I Sit

Another Hitchcock film I adore is "Spellbound".  Sure, it's over the top dramatic, and the sets and dream sequences by Salvador Dali, are, well, Dali.  But it's ultra romantic, and Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck are at their height of beauty and charisma.  They make a sexy pair, and it's fun that she is the psychiatrist and he the patient (even though he proves to be a doctor).  She thinks she can be neutral, not believing in love at first sight, but he is the emotional one, totally irrational and helpless.  This was filmed at the height of psychoanalysis' popularity, and though a lot of the talk seems dated or is discredited now, it gives a perfect snapshot of it's time.  The movie is filled with charming irony and humor, and the actors are uniformly excellent.  It's fun, and scary in a good way, with the "experts" being lost at sea, and a murderer running the psychiatric institution.  The fun house is that all the danger is really within the supposed protected environment, and the world outside is where the couple escape to, both to find out the truth about him, and in the end, to escape the constricted environment of doctors and patients.  In the real world, life is much more complicated, more gray than black or white, and little lines with a fork on a white tablecloth do not guide us to wisdom.  Only taking risks, trusting our hearts and leaving our protective concepts gives us true freedom.