When the naval construction designer Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) meets the Serbian Irena Dubrovna Reed (Simone Simon) in the zoo, he flirts with her and they sooner fall in love and marry each other. However, Irena is afraid of an ancient course of her town that women can not be touched by a man, otherwise she will transform in a panther, and the couple does not consummate their marriage. Irena is sent for treatment with the psychiatrist Dr. Louis Judd (Tom Conway), while Oliver looks for "consolation" with his colleague Alice Moore (Jane Randolph). When Irena sees that she is losing Oliver to Alice, she becomes jealous and hateful, leading to a tragic end.
#BFI #In Dreams Are Monsters 长评 - She never lied to us。台上故事说的非常清楚,背后的故事也都带到了,主要是氛围营造得太好了,从头到尾也没有出现的化豹的画面也是提升了悬疑感。视觉上,镜头运动非常棒,大量的使用后拉,带出来的人物也带有很强的疏离感,前期几次柔焦的使用也从视觉上帮助女主建立形象,让感情升温的更加自然。把女主和黑豹进行的剪辑也直接对照出了失去自由的黑豹在夜晚的咆哮就如同过去教权压抑下女主的那夜不能寐。光影上有很大程度的穿帮,不过效果是非常的好,不论是头顶光的利用还是用影子来诉说故事,都很好的衬托出了恐怖的氛围,催眠治疗那场戏中的脸部打光也透露出女主那种如同婴儿熟睡般的恬静,与后面心理医生做法的对比也极其强烈。
太精神分析了,一边是富有权威的男精神科医生,一边是“精神不正常”自言自语的女病人。一场对疯女人的围剿。男主三句话,“我从来没不快乐过”“我觉得我们有时候是陌生人”“太晚了,我们离婚吧”,最后西女主的悲剧死亡和男主的“她从没对我们撒过谎”结束,确实没撒谎,只是没有人相信她罢了。//更进一步,文献提供了另一个观点,心理医生的死亡,证明了电影认为精神分析是不重要,Psychoanalysis’ world view is shown to be narrow and its authority jeopardised by the unethical behaviour of the analyst, which costs him his life.