Donald Spoto pretty much sums up Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) in one particular sentence: "The film is, after all, like a dream, an oxymoronic 'slow chase,' with all the aural evocations of memory, desire, obsession and loss." Hitchcock keeps you on the edge of your seat in the last third of the movie, but the beginning is somewhat droning. The slow-pace start is somewhat necessary, though. These long, slow, silent scenes are pushed along by Bernard Herrmann's score, which mirrors the emotions that Hitchcock continually tries to portray throughout the film.
On a side note, I really need to get back on this blog and update more than once every couple of weeks. It's just not cuttin' it.
agreed- haha..
ReplyDeleteI like doing things like Five Question Fridays- there's a link on my blog..or Wordless Wednesdays (except I need to start taking more pictures so i can actually do this!) Other people do things like "top 2 tuesdays". Just some fun things to blog about when ya got nothing serious to say! (: