| Great poster by the way |
First of, this was my first Alfred Hitchcock film. I had seen bits and pieces of Psycho and Birds before, but never a complete movie.
What can I say. It was beautiful.
One very important thing for me was the music. It immediately sets the tone for the film. As little as I have seen I still have noticed that music is a big part of Hitchcock's films. And it works. Its creepy its romantic its thrilling and it works perfectly with the shot and emotions portrayed by actors.
This is a story about love and attachment. How attached we become to the things we love, to memories- image of something.
Great performance by James Stewart. He really managed to portray the longing , nostalgia , melancholia, vertigo (no doubt there , his performance easily conveyed the feeling of dread and terror you might get when experiencing vertigo, very frightening). As for the lead female ,Kim Novak , she didn't have so much material to work with, but she was convincing in her acting, although, she had to act acting , so at the end obviously the viewer is a bit lost because he sees one actor playing two characters, and then you don't know which one was more acted and which was more of an effort. Probably the female part could have been better written, I am not going into details as to not give too much away of the story.
It was absolute pleasure to watch 50s USA as well. Those cars, clothes , designs, and colors, an colorful time to live in.
Why 9? Well, because it is a perfect story about affection.
It makes you wonder about all the things you have loved and how you would like to return to that time when you loved them.
Oh , and of course , the vertigo effect shots were stunning , something that works amazingly on your visual sense. Kudos for discovering "contra-zoom". That itself is worth watching the film.
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