Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock · 1958 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A San Francisco detective who has left the force with a fear of heights is hired by an old classmate to follow his wife, who is said to be possessed by a dead ancestor. He trails her through cemeteries, galleries and the bay, and falls for her while doing it. Obsession filmed as devotion; love as necromancy.

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Lineage

• parallels ↑ Orpheus and Eurydice
  Greek myth · c. 500 BCE · Myth / Legend
• ↓ Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch · 2001 CE · Film — influenced by this

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