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Over the years, the story of Vertigo has been labelled "preposterous". Theory : this time for Hitchcock, the entire story is the MacGuffin!

 

Is this story more or less ridiculous than, say, the Bertelsmann Tyranny? Or, say, anything else happening at this moment in 2023? Perhaps those Spectators who label the story of Vertigo "preposterous" are the same good folk who prioritize the "waking" order of Reason over the dream-order of Truth (which hurts). Wide-awake Reason, may I remind these good people, has brought us to the Uplifting Utopia of 2023. Only Art can take us out of 2023. And who wouldn't want to escape 2023?

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(1:48:16The Spectator.

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This is the one and only time in Vertigo that a disinterested onlooker solely and silently occupies a shot.

 

Why now? As the film plunges headlong towards its end, this "distancing" adds vertigo to Vertigo. . . .

 

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“Tim, my account has reached the limit of its jpg capacity!”

“Hi, Jeffrey. If you upgrade to a premium membership the upload limits are much higher.”

Tim, you mean you are requesting I pay to help your site out?

 

That is not going to happen.

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Vertigo : connecting and reconnecting

 

geometry

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foreshadowing :

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(2:02:13) note : ashen brown

 

Nabokov, Lolita : “Mission Dolores: good title for book.”

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(37:41) bridge joining them :

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(38:22) pillars dividing them :

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(1:11:36–1:11:48) overhead :

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and shot transitions to white door :

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which becomes fullscreen. White = oblivion of open space : Dissolves to Madeleine-death sequence :

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(1:26:24) overhead at hospital : Madeleine in mind?

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First shot post-credits : horizontal bar :

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Next scene opens with vertical cane :

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The following are two-shots of men and women in Vertigo up to (1:48:03).

At first glance, which shots are the most serenely composed?

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(1:48:03), for example, recalls the irony of the "order" of

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