YMMV / Laura

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Was Laura a beautiful-but-naïve woman who had the bad luck to get involved with an obsessive Svengali like Waldo Lydecker? Or was she a Manipulative Bitch who had a habit of using men like Waldo for her own purposes?
  • Mark McPherson: intrepid investigator or Necromantic Stalker with a Crush? And when Laura returns, is she just a figment of his imagination?
• Awesome Ego: Waldo Lydecker.
• Awesome Music: The song "Laura" written for the film by composer David Raskin with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It became a jazz standard.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Mark has a small handheld rectangular baseball/pinball game he plays from time to time. The way he holds it in some shots makes it look like he's using a smartphone, in 1944!
• It Was His Sled: Even during the film's original release, few people went into the theater without already knowing that Laura wasn't really dead. It's a testament to the film that the scene where she returns is so well-shot that it still retains a sense of tension and drama, even though most modern viewers are aware of the twist.

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