"Vertigo" ( Alfred Hitchcock )

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" The title of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) characterizes the film quite well, for the director attempts not only to use the idea of vertigo, or dizziness in this case brought about by a fear of heights, as a driving force in the plot but also creates a sense of vertigo for the audience and further uses vertigo as a metaphor for action of the film. Every element of the film is shaped toward this end, all centered on the fact that the main character, Scotty, has this psychological problem which manifests itself in the physical feeling of dizziness.

The opening sequence is the key to all that follows, and it is especially important that Scotty is visually left dangling from a roof at the end of this sequence. He is, of course, rescued, but the rescue is not shown, and in a Hitchcock film what is not shown can be as important as what is. Scotty at this.."

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