Jealousy (1954)

★★★★★ · Or: A Case For Heavy Drugs · Spuzz · 2003-09-12

An amazing short featuring a lot of voice over and a LOT of scene chewing is about "Sally" a woman who obviously needs to be on some sort of high powered drug like lithium because her jealousy just seems to get the best of her in most cases, Her husband arrives home late one night and she rips into him about why he was late. Since his excuse isn't good enough, she kicks him out and THEN the most amazing voice-over starts, with her wondering where he is and so forth, and then she gets a phone call.. Her husband was telling the trith where he was! (somethinh about tube caps and lipstick…

★★★★★ · Who is she? · louiseb35 · 2012-04-17

This one certainly kept my attention to the end, one of the best in my opinion. I'm most impressed with the performance of the actress. So much of this is the soundtrack of her mental thoughts and the actress emoting those thoughts as she works it out in her head. Easier said than done. Now I'm curious about her, did she ever work in movies, who is she?

★★★★★ · Brilliant · DrAwkward · 2004-01-25

Fabulously bad noir lighting, melodrama-rama, woman on the vergeTodd Haynes couldn't have done it better!

★★★★★ · I feel her pain... · PreliViewerKid86 · 2004-11-03

In all sincerity, the type of mental self-talk that Sally is going through in the film is incredibly similar to the type of self-talk that people with severe anxiety have. It's tough, I recently went through a break-up that was related to my anxiety and jealousy. I think this film has some definate validity. --Taylor

★★★★ · <i>I don't want to be reasonable!</i> · dynayellow · 2003-09-07

Don comes home from working late one night and Sally rips into him, accusing him of fooling around. As Don tries to explain the complex manufacturing needs of the tube-based cosmetics industry, Sally tosses him out on his ear. One Deus ex machina phone call later, Sally realizes that she was wrong, and begins to suppect that it was really her evil, sinful nature that's been causing all these thoughts. A good 2/3rds of the film is a voice-over of Sally. Accurately portrays the kinds of ridiculous, but angry, arguments married people have.

★★★★ · Break the cycle · autoguy · 2005-11-11

This interesting film outlines the choices presented to a man trapped in a never ending cycle of abuse. The man has mistakenly married little more than an emotionally ill child, but remains trapped within the bounds of his society's gendre programming. In the heat of the purpetual abuse cycle, the man has luckily been presented with the some choices. Does he remain locked in the thralls of abuse, and continue his role as whipping boy and pack mule? Or does he do the right thing, and move on with a different woman that would obviously be much healthier for him? A woman capable of pursuing…