I haven't seen all of Ingrid Bergman's movies, but I sure am glad I took the time to sit down and watch this one. I always wanted to see what they really meant by the expression "to gaslight someone." Believe me, after watching this movie, you'll hope it never happens to you. GASLIGHT is a classic film, not because it's old, but because the theme will never go out of style. As long as ulterior motives exist this film will continue to be relevant. Basically, Ingrid Bergman plays a young woman, Paula, who falls in love with Gregory, a Hungarian composer played by Charles Boyer, while travelling around Italy. She doesn't know him very well, but he sweeps her off her feet. He makes her feel safe, something she hasn't felt since her aunt, the person who raised her, was murdered years before. To make him happy and fulfill a lifelong dream of his, she agrees to marry him and return to London to live in the house where the murder took place. Maybe by returning she can finally put the horror behind her.

Unfortunately, even though they remove her aunts things to the attic, Paula is unhappy in the house. Gregory tries to make their first months in the house enjoyable, spending all his time with Paula. Eventually, he must return to working on his composing, but he's worried about her health. She's been so forgetful and tired. A beautiful day out to the Tower of London, ends unhappily when Paula loses a brooch Gregory gave to her earlier that day. She doesn't remember opening her bag, but she must have because the pin is nowhere to be found. Gregory is so unhappy they don't go out again for quite some time. So Paula becomes a prisoner in her own home. If she tries to go out on her own the servants tell Gregory, incurring his wraith. She begins to see and hear things, spending night after night alone in her room while Gregory is off at his office working. The lights dim even though there is supposedly no one else in the house.