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EM: Vertigo 迷魂记 DVD

Code : 9876543277169

Alfred Hitchcock took a certain prankster's liberty with his films, delighting the audience and, no doubt, himself with his unpredictable and amusing cameo appearances. But would he have subverted an entire film's dramatic structure to the requirements of a more elaborate joke, a joke intended solely for his private delight? And not just any film, but the celebrated Vertigo, widely considered one of his, and cinema's, greatest masterpieces? The 1958 film, currently in re-release, possesses a strange symmetry that raises the question of whether Hitchcock had ulterior, perhaps mischievous, motives to his direction. Vertigo opens with a policeman and a detective (James Stewart) chasing a fugitive across the tops of San Francisco buildings. Scottie, the detective, slips down a steep roof and ends up dangling from a flimsy rain gutter. The policeman tries to rescue him but instead falls to his death. The scene ends with the horrified Scottie left hanging by his fingers. In the following scene, Scottie discusses his recuperation with Midge, an old friend, but his escape from the dangerous predicament of the prologue is never explained. Scottie's cane and references to his corset are evidence of unspecified physical injuries, but it's his psychological injury, his vertigo, that entices our curiosity, strongly enough to allow incidental acknowledgment of his physical injuries to satisfy us, if indeed we question them at all. But on analysis Scottie's physical injuries seem disproportionate to the danger; his escape by no means a certainty. It appears unlikely he could have pulled himself up alone without the gutter tearing away from the building; and there was no one else on the roof to provide timely assistance. If he had dropped the six stories to the pavement — the same fall that killed the policeman — he would at least have broken bones. 斯考蒂·费古森警官在一次追捕中，在高楼上失手惊吓后得了恐高症。虽然身体外伤完全痊愈了，但恐高症似乎无法根治，他只好从警署辞职改行做了私家侦探。 　　一天，斯考蒂过去的同学加文·艾斯特来找他，委托他作为私人侦探跟踪他的妻子玛伦。玛伦似乎有一种精神惶惑症，而她的丈夫则认为她是中了邪，正受着她死去的祖母夏洛塔·威德兹的控制。 　　斯考蒂开始觉得这个想法十分可笑，但他还是开始跟踪玛伦。玛伦在荣誉军团宫殿里对着祖母的一幅画像看了几个小时，还去了墓地，甚至还企图跳水自杀。斯考蒂把她救上来，并把她带到自己家里。他问她过去这一天里都干了什么？为什么这么做？但玛伦自己也迷惑不解。 　　不久，斯考蒂意外地又遇见了玛伦，她感谢斯考蒂救了她，还对自己的行为表示抱歉。斯考蒂开始对玛伦神秘的美发生了兴趣，他邀请玛伦去旧金山旅行。在杉树自然公园，玛伦让他看一个被锯断的树桩，说上面记载着她的出生和死亡