| | "Vertigo" - Movie Review by Macabre Stalker (Ray Bonilla) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | However, Vertigo's status as a classic stems as much from Jimmy Stewart's inspired portrayal of an man obsessed with a woman as it does for Hitchcock's artful handling of a twisted and crafty tale of deception, disorientation, and death. |
 | | The infatuations and fixations one who is obsessed bears are dangerous portals into a realm of non-reality, where their fantasy love prompts compulsive, irrational, and often dangerous (for both the obsessor and obsessee) acts to prove their distorted concept of love. |
 | | For a Hitchcock film, it was a commercial failure (which is something Jimmy Stewart is not unfamiliar with); it received damning feedback from critics; and it was lost in cinematic oblivion for years and years when Hitchcock re-purchased the rights and negatives to it and bequeathed them to his daughter. |
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