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Shock Corridor (1963)
★ 7.0 · 297 ratings on TMDB
… opens the door to sights you've never seen before!
With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.
DirectorSamuel Fuller
The emergence reading
Shock Corridor keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, war, nuclear, mental.
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Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
