Dr. Edward, directed by Hitchcock in 1944, was the first film with psychoanalysis as its theme in film history. Even by today's standards, this film is still outstanding. Love was filmed in 1944, but it was officially released a year later. It is said that Hitchcock wanted to put surreal dreams in the film, and he has been waiting for the Spaniard Dali to complete this pioneering work.

Dali is one of the representatives of the surrealist school of painting. He founded the "self-induced paranoid state method", that is, simulating dreams in a sober state, and then using this as the material, he created strange and surreal visual effects with extremely accurate realistic skills. Therefore, Dali's works are often realistic as photographs but absurd and illogical. He famously said, "I don't do drugs. I am drugs."!

The film tells the story that the old director of a mental hospital is about to retire. He is replaced by Dr. Edward played by gregory peck, and the female doctor played by ingrid bergman falls in love with him at first sight. However, in the process of getting along, she finds that this person is not really Dr. Edward, and there are various indications that he may be the murderer of Edward. But the female doctor firmly believed that she was not a murderer, so she launched a series of wonderful psychological analysis with psychoanalysis and finally found the truth.

The psychoanalysis of this film is based on several dreams designed by Hitchcock and Dali. In surreal dreams, people and scenes almost form a one-to-one mapping relationship with reality. From today's point of view, this mapping relationship is too neat and lacks skills, but it can be said that it was unprecedented in that era.