Gas Light was a theatrical play performed in London in 1938. The play was a cultural hit. It was adapted to film in 1940. A second movie followed in 1944, starring Ingrid Bergman, a classic Hollywood actress known for her luminous beauty. It is a story about crafty manipulation of an innocent victim by a perfidious and homicidal sociopath. It touches on topics such as greed (the plot revolves around stolen gemstones), narcissism, lack of empathy, and malevolence. The victim questions her own sanity and her own hold of reality. “Gaslight” was an influential, high-budget movie. In the aftermath, the [...]