Hitchockian deception!
Vertigo (1958): Speaking of fake dead women... One of Alfred Hitchock's best, it also feels incredibly personal – stylish and frightening, of course but also achingly sad. Yes, Jimmy Stewart is being manipulated, being duped into serving as part of a murder plot. And he's foolish enough to let himself fall in love with Kim Novak's doomed, quintessentially icy Hitchcockian blonde not once but twice. But he's also deceiving himself, allowing his need for love to feed his obsessive quest to recreate that sensation all over again. Much is made of some of the film's most famous images – the push/pull effect as Stewart's character fights off his vertigo in the bell tower, the eerie, neon-green haze of the hotel room. But at its core, "Vertigo'' is about needing to feel secure and loved. (AP)
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