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Vertigo is a good example of both, but a very well executed example of the latter. Plus, it had a lot of ambiguity and surreal qualities that leave its meaning open to interpretation and we eat that kind of thing up.
Oct 13, 1996 · “Vertigo” (1958), which is one of the two or three best films Hitchcock ever made, is the most confessional, dealing directly with the themes that controlled his art. It is *about* how Hitchcock used, feared and tried to control women.
Jan 14, 2017 · Mostly, in a critical re-evaluation of Hitchcock’s career, critics and cinephiles have realized what a profoundly ahead-of-its-time movie it is. It’s moody, it’s romantic, it’s insane, it’s gorgeous, and it’s one-of-a-kind. Below are the eight reasons that Vertigo is Alfred Hitchcock’s unequivocal greatest film. 1.
But, Vertigo is still a great film and listing it as the greatest of all time seemed reasonable to me. But afterwards, I realized something. The vast majority of the film's original impact revolves around its plot twist.
Vertigo is good because it shows the way artifice can be twisted into reality by events set in motion by artifice which are no longer within its power. It shows that the boundary between the way things appear and the way they actually are is very permeable, if it exists at all.
May 5, 2016 · What makes Vertigo so good (and maybe great) is the plot, which defies description in many ways. (Don’t worry, no spoilers, either here or in the trailer for the 1996 restored version shown...
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Mar 4, 2024 · Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) is now considered the greatest film of all time according to the critics that voted in the British Film Institute’s 2012 Sight & Sound poll. The survey, which is compiled once a decade, saw Hitchcock bumping Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, which had held the spot for 50 years.