vertigo

this particular film was very confusing and weird to me. it had a lot of substance though. My other teacher even told us before viewing that one would have to watch it more then once to fully understand what goes on. The main character john follows around Madelin, his old friends wife because he is afraid she is up to no good; hesitantly, john accepts. While following her around he sees that she has an obsession about a women in an old painting in a museaum [ which ends up being her spirit in her body toward the end of the film.] the acts of her life are reanacted with the two, and she ends up dying the same way her spirit did years before.
I thought the ending was terrible. it was good for the point they wanted to prove, but i feel like it could have been better. but i guess thats one thing that i noticed while watching hitchcock movies, that he does things his way and noone elses. which is good because it is solely brought back to his work; i would have enjoyed it more if the ending had more closure. Especially with john and his girlfriend at home who loves him; as well as Madelin's husband too. This film was not torture to watch but it was very confusing; i reccomend it though, because its hitchcock at his best.