Jeff Bernstein

Vertigo on hold. My account has reached the limit of its jpg capacity.

However, there is the old woman of the McKittrick Hotel (32:02) : an associated detail to consider. But Midge (52:42) : she is very interested :

(1:48:16) The Spectator. 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. . . .

The first mirror in Vertigo that looks like a door.

(1:47:32) The gold-framed mirror.

(1:46:48) The color brown : a very bad omen.

A dream of a 1930s movie.

(1:45:56) Body Double. After almost an entire movie of walking around on his own. . . . But what does anything mean? Look how they're looking at different outlooks. . . .

(1:45:47) Out of the Past : How many Pasts are in this shot?

Geometry. One walks horizontally through a door. One falls vertically from a height. But . . . in what direction is the following going?

Lynchian energy . . .

PEOPLE : (1:45:17) “I guess I could phone the store in the morning and make some excuse.” FADE OUT.

(1:55:04) Judy’s girlish lips again : an ambivalent opening of the mouth (recalling her frightened child sleep-babble self) : Remember “Downtown, shopping.” (47:58–48:00)?

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?

btw : (1:13:41–1:14:14) : Theory : Longest duration of out-of-phase in Hollywood history? Speaking of Lost Highway :

(1:45:00) Now, contemplating JS's offer of hope, Judy is contemplating the world outside the window : . . . when earlier, when she had no hope, Judy faced the world with aggrieved contempt :

(1:44:48) Beautiful cinematographic grace note.

The Face : light and dark. We know this technique well by now. And so on and so forth back to who knows when. . . .

(1:44:56) The Neon Demon (2016) Enter the Void

and the frame of the mirror.

and (44:50)

and Phantom Thread

The Master (2012)

Doorway Dream Imagery.