While watching Vertigo, I was very intrigued by Hitchcock’s
ability to correlate the soundtrack in order to provide suspense to the viewer.
While the soundtrack was nearly nonexistent in Rope, it had a very pronounced
effect in Vertigo. Also I noticed when the camera rapidly zoomed out to distort
the height distances, it had a suspenseful effect as well. Scotties dream also
had significant meaning. The bouquet of flowers he sees start to fall apart, as
does he. The viewer can see how grounded Scotties belief is about Carlotta
affecting Madeline’s behavior. In the end you see the roof which he’s falling
on disintegrate and he seemingly falls into space. Towards the end around 2:05:44 Hitchcock
perfected the lighting (dark) and mise-en-scene
of the old church tower, with dusty and old structural components, all to give the impression that it’s inhabited
and isolated. Almost as if no one has, or will come up. This increases the
suspense when someone is heard coming up because the viewer couldn’t really
expect it. Over all this was a fine Hitchcock work and it could be categorized
as a thriller/love-story.
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