“Vertigo

Rewatched* Vertigo tonight.

I didn’t expect to be *that* stunned, as I’ve seen quite a few visual arthouse masterpieces in my lifetime (only a minority of which were produced in the States), but Hitchcock’s thriller still takes the cake. Weird, non-linear, aesthetically opulent to the point that you feel as if you are going into a dream-like state yourself. The plot doesn’t make a lot of sense, of course (as it should be), but its Ambrose Bierce ambience doesn’t escape you anyway. The romantic line would’ve been silly had it been in any way regarded as important (it wasn’t). The forest scene was the purest magick.

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* I did watch it before, but it was more than 30 years ago, and I didn’t remember a thing, except a vague Doppelgänger motif