Freud vs Manchurian Candidate

They were made the same year, 1962. I don't know if one influenced the other but they both used the same gimmick in the hypnosis scenes.

Freud was directed by John Huston, The Manchurian Candidate by John Frankenheimer.

I haven't seen Freud in years. It used to be on TV now and then.

In The Manchurian Candidate, we have the dream sequences where we see the captured soldiers under hypnosis. It alternates between seeing what they were supposed to be seeing under hypnosis, that there were at a ladies' garden club meeting and what actually happened, they were in front of a group of North Korean, Chinese and Soviets who were all speaking in English for some reason.

In Freud, Susanna York is put under hypnoses by another psychiatrist to relive a traumatic event, the death of her father. This should help her overcome the trauma, but they've done it several times and it does no good. Freud sees what the problem is.

First, under hypnosis, she tells the story of what happened and we see it in a dream-like flashback. There was knocking at their door. Doctors came from the Protestant hospital to inform them that her father had died. The girl goes with the doctors to the hospital to identify his body. At the hospital, they're playing music for the patients downstairs. We see patients and nurses gathered to listen. A nun takes them upstairs to the room where her father lies dead.

Freud starts questioning her more assertively. Doctors don't leave the hospital to tell people someone has died. They were pounding on the door and yelling.

"Vhat vere dey yellink?" Freud says.

"Open up! Police"

We see the same scenes again, this time as they really were.

It wasn't a hospital. It was a brothel. We see the ladies and their customers listening to music. They weren't Protestants---they were prostitutes. It wasn't a nun who led them to the room---it was a madame.

I was just visiting the hospital. This came to mind when I came downstairs and they were playing music for the patients.