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Spider
Opening credits:
yellowy, stained wallpaper with brown patches - creates the impression of a place poorly looked after - walls with bits of paint having fallen off - possibly symbolic of Spider's mind
Blots on wall paper look like Rorschach tests - establish that the film will be dealing explicitly with psychology
Piano Music:
"Over the mountains and over the waves/Under the fountains and under the graves/Under floods that are deepest which Neptune obey/Over rocks that are steepest love will found out the way” - 17th Century hymn - takes of floods - Neptune - god - and mountans and waves - "All Creatures Great and Small” vibe - perhaps expressing the idea that society has symbolically used religion to deal with inner trauma - look to God for help with your problem
Rorschach
tests:
on the wallpaper + walls - perhaps encouraging the spectator to look into him or herself - to try and explore their own psychology whilst watching the film
Some of the 'Rorschach tests' look as though they contain scary faces - perhaps expressing the inner demon of our psychology, or those with mental illness