The psycho analytic interpretations seemed simplistic and silly. I suppose to audiences back then this "trick cyclist" stuff was rather novel, but it wouldn't go down with today's audiences. Yet I don't think our understanding of human nature has advance at all since then. So why wouldn't that psycho babble be accepted today in a movie?
"Trick cyclist" was a name WW2 US servicemen gave to psychiatrists.
Well, Freud had some 'psycho babble' himself (or at least some projections of his own on his patients), but isn't it great & thrilling how Hitch and his team presented it all?
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I also had a problem with that. I was so sad because I so wanted to like this movie, but when Ingrid started with all these psychyatric explanations for every single of J.B.'s actions and words like I'm 2 years old it just bothered me. I understand it was filmed in 1945 and I'm not really sure where general audiences were standing regarding psychoanalysis and stuff but it felt really dumb. And, not even for a second, did I buy Ingrid as a scientist. Sha had to wear glasses because that's what scientists use right?
If this movie had been made today it would have been torn by critics with such dialogues!
I'll say this though, that Gregory Peck was a gorgeous man!