Vertigo

A very personal movie for me. Came at a time in my life in which I needed to see it. Hitchcock's masterpiece. Yes, if you really look at the suspense/murder plot, it is extremely rickety and full of holes. But the movie is about the different part of romantic love and how it can be taken too far. Fantasy and even some degree of obsession are integral in any romantic relationship and are healthy. But it's a fine line, as the film points out, between having those healthy elements of a romance and where they can be taken too far. Jimmy Stewart's relationship in the fist half of the movie, while circumstantially "weird," is a more "normal" version of romantic love with fantasy and infatuation. The second half shows Stewart's character falling into the darker sides of that. The film, then, is less a suspense than a philosophical/psychological exploration of the extremes of love and how certain things integral in relationships can be taken too far. Vertigo is #1 on my list of favorite movies. I give it 98%.