Vertigo

The movie Vertigo is full of exciting surprises one after another, and it is my favorite Hitchcock movie so far.  The detective Scottie’s condition of acrophobia served as the clue throughout the entire film. First he got retired because of it, and later watched the woman he loved  fall off the tower but could not do anything to save her, also Gavin used his condition to commit a crime which he murdered his wife but made it look like suicide. The movie is so intense that it contains some dangerous scenes to intensify the thriller, at time stamp: 0:59 of clip one, the camera combined long shot with panning unsteadily from the top of the building demonstrated the dangerousness of detective Scottie’s job and one could feel his fear and when his coworker fell off the building resulted in him suffering severe acrophobia which ultimately indirectly caused the death of Madeleine.  In clip 2 (time stamp: 0:42 and 0:49; 0:59 and 1:08) the extreme close up shots in slow motion make the audiences focus on the resemblance of Madeleine and the painting on the wall as if she was possessed, I walked right into Gavin’s trap while watching this scene, the exact same bouquet of flowers and hair style, plus the suspenseful music in the background, successfully aroused the curiosity of the audiences. At time stamp:0:25 of clip 3 where the golden gate bridge came into the view, its height and the somber sky apparently suggest that something bad was about to happen, and given condition of Scottie’s acrophobia, one could easily infer that Madeleine would fall off the bridge and she did as predicted. However, as the movie progresses, it is not predictable at all, Judy was arranged by Gavin to accomplice the murder of his wife was the climax of the film and the ending of how Judy died was once again out of the blue, Hitchcock kept hitting the audiences with surprises from the start to the very end of the film.