Thursday, January 17, 2008

Vertigo (1958)

I don't like Vertigo. I've got no problem with heights, but I do have problems with the film. Firstly the plot was largely driven by chance at first then a few conversations which coincidentally had just the right sort of outcome to suggest another, later, conversation. From these shaky, unstable grounds, the entire film was constructed.

It plodded along having not much to do with "vertigo" at all, and the ending on the church tower (whatever it was) struck me as being extremely unbelievable. How did she get such a surprise to step back that huge distance?

A solidly disappointing film.

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