It is were the term gas lighting comes from

  • jeffw@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It’s actually based on a play, but yeah… “the gas lights aren’t flickering” is the original gaslighting

    The film was nominated for a decent number of Oscars and won a handful iirc. Edit: womp, it went 2 for 7 at the Oscars.

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      I work in 911 dispatch, I had a call once upon a time, just an open line from a cell phone. Couldn’t make any contact, just heard what sounded like a male and female arguing, it was hard to make out, sounded a little muffled. It didn’t sound super heated but just enough enough that for liability reasons I felt like it should be checked out as a possible disturbance/domestic.

      The cellular location was decent but not pinpoint accurate, and it dropped in the middle of a fairly densely populated area, so it could have been any of potentially a few dozen or so houses, apartments, or businesses. No answer when I called them back.

      Entered the call with whatever information I had, and checked where the location was dropping on Google maps.

      It was dropping at a small local playhouse. Out of curiosity I checked what shows they were doing.

      It was Gaslight.

      Police checked the area and didn’t find anything. So I’m pretty sure I was just listening to them rehearsing from inside of an actor’s pocket or something.