Lew Crippen
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or else their brains are easy lays.How did you know?
I’m happy to abide by Justin’s clarification (or just an arbitrary decision).
For m, Psycho (unlike most Hitch movies where we know everything in advance) fundamentally surprises at the end. The would meet the test of messing with my mind.
I’d concede that A Clockwork Orange might not be what Justin had in mind.
And as for The Vanishing, I think that Sluizer messes with us from the beginning to the end. When we are put in the Rex persona, we are expected to be as confused as Rex. Why has Saskia gone missing? How could it have happened? Why does no one care? Why has no one seen?
Who is contacting me? Why don’t they make themselves known? Is she still alive? If not, how did she die? What was her fate? What is mine?
All mind games, I would think.
BTW, my nomination was for the 1988 version, not the remake.
As for Pink Flamingos, aside from the fact that Waters just likes to mess with his audience no matter the film. I’d say that it qualifies, even if you drop ‘mind’ as a qualifier.