Notes From Chapter 2

    I enjoyed reading chapter 2 because as I have mentioned before I am someone interested in psychology as much as I am interested in Film. I started studying Psychology in my home country before I moved to the US and decided to study Graphic Design and Film. I love the connection between cinema and psychology and in my opinion those two things are deeply connected because if there was no human psychology there would not be a Theater, and later Film and Series. As the chapter mentions Cinema has always had an affinity for dreams, distortions, and delusions. I also find Sigmund Freud psychoanalytic theory interesting and I have studied and discussed that few times while in High School and at the University.

    It it not strange how many film directors were inspired from the Sigmund Freud's psychology and how they included psychological elements in their films. When it comes to psychological movies my favorite film director is Alfred Hitchcock. In my opinion nobody is good as he was in that sphere. I enjoyed watching his film even that they are somehow old now. I like how he used different psychological methods in them that keep the viewers interested and uncertain since the last minute. Alfred Hitchcock's characters play very well with human psychology, thoughts, emotions, feelings. The use of memories in his films is incredible they talk about the subconscious mind and they trigger psychotic episode. Alfred Hitchcock's film Spellbound (1945) was the first film which plot focused on Psychoanalysis.

    From the reading, I also find very interesting Jacques Lacan's mirror stage theory. It is interesting to think that infants can recognize themselves in a mirror from the age of about six months. To this theory I connected the video that is posted on our class blog. We can see the influence that the psychology have on films with that. There are plenty of films in which a scene with a mirror is used and how in many of them the mirror is used in a way to scare the character or to talk about their unconscious mind.