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RESEARCH #7- Vertigo-1958 by Alfred Hitchcock

Updated: Sep 22, 2020



- There are 14 sets of titles in the sequence.


- The images in the sequence include a woman's face, focusing on her eye. This is a precursor to the story, the protagonist finding a vital clue in the story when a woman impersonating her lover has the wrong eye colour. There is also a dizzying spiral effect, meant to represent vertigo, of which the protagonist suffers from. They give the viewer a feeling of dizziness or mindbending, which is an integral part of the plot.


- The tense music and dizzying effects insinuate a sense of a psychological thriller.


-The image of the woman, supposedly naked, makes you think that the film will be mature and aimed at adults. The dizzying effect also tells that this will be a sophisticated story, not a lighthearted rom-com or period drama. The tense music reinforces that this story is suspenseful and an almost cat and mouse film.


- The at the time revolutionary visual effects uphold the fact that this is something new, something different, like the story.

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