We all fear something or the other.different phobias have different names to it...this movie captures the fear of heights...the master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock justifies the fact that it is not necessary to show blood thirsty ghosts, murderers,revenge thirsty psychopaths to induce a sense of fear in the mindset of the audience...The movie depicts to what level obssession can be reached by an individual...reicarnation to a certain extent has been tackled brilliantly in this movie by hitchcock...
John “scottie” Ferguson ( played memorably by the eternal James Stewart ) is a detective who suffers from Vertigo after an untoward incident in the beginning...later on rescuing Madeliene ( ravishing Kim Novak in a double avatar, who looks va va voom in the second half redhead ) he falls in love with her at first sight....but in the middle he loses her...the second is even better than the first half with one exceptional sequence of scottie being totally frightened and waking up in his bed scared as hell!!!
Nightmarish,romantic,spectacular photography of SAN FRANCISCO,Plus the legendary score by none other than Bernard Herrmann ( Taxi Driver )Vertigo( 1958 ) was adapted from the French novel Sueurs froides : d' entre les morts by Pierre boileau and Thomas Narcejac....Was a failure upon release and yet again was humiliated when the academy awarded the inferior Gigi for best picture,plus not honoring hitchcock,stewart,novak and hermann!!!!!however VERTIGO is still hitchcock's greatest achievement as a director and MASTERPIECE with an unforgettable bell tower sequence at the end which still haunts me even now....
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