It is were the term gas lighting comes from

    • m0darn@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      It actually isn’t a movie, it’s a Broadway musical that was filmed and released without a cinematic release. If you knew anything about cinema or the English language you’d know that, but you’re too obsessed with making me look like an asshole to think about it rationally.

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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.

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    2 days ago

    It’s also two movies.

    Everyone should watch it to understand a term that’s overused.