[Political Junkie Too]

Actually, in the movie he wasn't intentionally manipulating the gaslight to make his wife go crazy. He told her he was going out but was secretly in the attic looking for lost jewelry, and the house lights dimmed when he turned on the gaslight in the attic.

He only told her she was imagining the lights dimming and then started making up new things like forgetting the mail or losing something to throw her off from inquiring further about the gaslights dimming.

-PJ

[Buttons12]

Actually, in the movie he wasn't intentionally manipulating the gaslight to make his wife go crazy. He told her he was going out but was secretly in the attic looking for lost jewelry, and the house lights dimmed when he turned on the gaslight in the attic.

Yep. One of my favorite films (the Bergman/Boyer version).

[one guy in new jersey]

He took advantage of her very observations about the dimming gas lights to exacerbate her self-doubt. Her distress was so extreme that she allowed him to persuade her that what she was in fact seeing was not in fact happening. She was trapped in his spider’s Web of malign deceipt. He was mentally torturing her.