Vertigo Lament

It’s hard to believe the American Film Institute (AFI) named Vertigo as number 61 on its list of the 100 Greatest Films of All Time. What a disappointment! Whenever someone asks me to name my favorite films  the answer changes a bit depending on my mood. But one movie always makes it to the top five: Vertigo, released in 1958. I never get tired of watching Jimmy Stewart’s riveting obsession with Kim Novak in Hitchcock’s haunting psychological thriller about an acrophobic police detective who falls in love with two women. When the first one apparently dies, he becomes obsessed with turning the second woman, a lookalike, into a carbon copy of his first love – (SPOILER ALERT) only to find out later they were the same person. 

"Vertigo" named in the top five.

A worthy goal for which I strive.

Suspense, romance, and mystery

 that can’t be beat; not just for me.

Haunting music in the background,

captivates us with each rich sound.

Stewart and Novak at their best

in this amazing Hitchcock fest.

Reward the art and artists too.

Give true genius what it is due.  

Grand Cinema lives on display

in "Vertigo" still to this day.