Analysis Of Vertigo

The thesis of vertigo is to be a psychological thriller and i believe that the director,Hitchcock did a very good job presenting this thesis. The fact that Hitchcock was able to make you feel like you have vertigo by all the twists and turns in the plot of the movie is just mind blowing. Hitchcock truely knew exactly what he was doing when creating this film it had so many twists and turns you didn't know where it was going to end up.

The film was intriguing, interesting and disappointing all at the same time. This movie was well thought out up until the and. The and almost ruined the entire movie for me. I get that most movies and happy and Hitchcock wanted to be different by making it sad but it just didn't fit the movie plot in my
The very first scene of the movie shows camera shot of a police officer falling off a tall building to his death, which is then followed by a close up reaction shot of Scottie’s horrified expression. Later on in the film, a similar sequence of shots is used when Scottie witnesses “Madeleine’s” suicide as she falls to her death from a tall bell tower. Finally in the last few moments of the film, a high angle shot is taken of Judy as she falls to her doom. Once again, a close up of Scotty’s horror is shown before zooming out to a shot of him standing in the window of the creepy church bell tower, his posture crooked and mangled, a disturbing last shot to a disturbing
Just a few scenes into the movie, when Scottie sees Madeleine for the first time, she is spotted wearing a black and green dress, a great contrast to the intense bright red walls of the restaurant. When Scottie brings Madeleine back to his apartment after she takes a fall into San Francisco Bay, she changes out of her green dress into a bright red dress that Scottie provides for her. Another prop that is frequently used is Madeleine’s green car that Scottie follows and that is in the frame of many shots throughout the film. When it is parked in front of Scottie’s house, the contrast between the green of her car and the noticeably bright red door makes for interesting composition. The day Madeline commits suicide (when she jumps from the bell tower onto its red roof) Scottie mutters the line about Sequoia trees, “Always green- always living.” Just a few scenes later when a new character Judy is introduced, her deep green dress makes her the noticeable focus in the frame. The use of the two colors is apparent in almost every single scene of the film, perhaps to be used for obvious contrast in the visual and intellectual sense or because he likes the colors red and