The second half of the cinema veriteﹶ TheWrong Man (1956) slides from Manny’s (Henry Fonda) physical enclosure to the world of mental enclosure of his wife Rose (Vera Miles), whose paranoia results in her total emotional collapse. This happens after attorney O’Connor (Anthony Quayle) is hired. The tone grows bleaker in the film’s second half. In order to testify on his behalf Manny and Rose travel to find the witness either dead or relocated. Steeped in despair she finally becomes unstable and nervous. She like Norman Bates slowly withdraws from reality into a world of remorse and her reason threatened. In O’Conner’s office as the attorney and Manny discuss witness we see Rose’s anguished withdrawal, her sad distant, affectless gaze say
