Film · Paramount · 1958
Pass it on
Vertigo
33Leave it.
Leave it to adults. He loves a woman he can arrange, and the film knows that is the sickness.
Take controlThis scores 33. Vertigo cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
The review
A detective quits climbing after a death he could not prevent, and an old acquaintance hires him to follow a wife. I am not going to walk through the turns. The second half is a man who has lost a woman and tries to make another woman into her, down to the clothes and the hair. The film was not a hit in 1958. It became the picture people point at. The pointing is deserved only if they are pointing at the sickness.
Adults. Not a date, and not a lesson in romantic persistence. Persistence here is a form of use. What the film does, better than the decade's actual romances, is refuse the man a clean ending. Keep that refusal. If someone in the room calls it a great love story, disagree while the credits are still up. A great love does not hand a person a dress and wait for the person to become the dress.
Journal
Keep Vertigo in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 33. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Manchurian Candidate
46 instead of 33
The Manchurian Candidate is still a thriller film, and it scores 46 instead of 33. What you gain is republic: An election is the public stake.
The eight
- 4Industry
He had a job. The obsession retires the job and replaces it with pursuit.
- 2Household
No household. A woman is a likeness he is trying to force back into a dress.
- 2Piety
No reverence. The mission is a private hunger with a dead wife's friend as the excuse.
- 3Courage
Heights frighten him, and he goes up. The courage is real and it serves the wrong end.
- 2Republic
A city is a set of landmarks. He owes it nothing. He owes her a truth he will not give.
- 2Temperance
The appetite is the whole second half: make her look right, and the look will be love.
- 8Truth
The sickness is not sold as romance by the ending. The film tells on him.
- 3Stewardship
Adults can inherit the warning. Nobody should inherit the project of remaking a person.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Vertigo · 33IMDb tt0052357
