John 'Scottie' Ferguson (James Stewart) has been hired by an old college chum to keep an eye on his wife (Kim Novak) who's been acting a little strange lately.
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There are a million things Vertigo makes me want to talk about. I want to talk about cinema, about art, about love, about obsession and about blondes - but I just don't know how to make it into a coherent whole. It is then that I realize that all these ideas have already made into a coherent whole, by Hitchcock, in the form of this film. In some of his other films you have to search a bit to find the subtext, but not here. This time it's all text and it's all up there on the screen in beautiful VistaVision. This is what a magnum opus looks like.
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