i need 2 rewatch in the mood for love bcs i rly didnt care for it/wkw style sometimes bugs me but i rly like chungking express + fallen angels + thought days of being wild was good so?? like i feel like the way ive watched movies is a lot different so i should give it a chance again (but most of whats won me over in the three i liked are the early 90s/hong kong hyperkinetic aesthetic whereas in the mood for love is a lot more mature and im like not, but i understand his themes a lot more now as well)

A radical meditation on man’s (or, more precisely, men’s) obsession with illusion,Vertigo reflects back on itself as cinema, and as a sadly ironic view of romantic love in the fifties. James Stewart was never less “romantic” than in this film; his urgency is frightening and compelling. Kim Novak knowingly portrays the two faces of woman, icon and victim (with a beautiful turn on the movie standard—she’s a smart blonde, a dumb and manipulated brunette). Formally, and in its deeply felt expression of the ultimate love triangle—man, woman, and death—this is Hitchcock’s most poetic film. As Marilyn Fabe wrote, “The hero’s simultaneous desire and dread are given brilliant and haunting visual expression through the ambivalent camera movements—especially the combination of forward zooms and reverse tracking shots.”

truuuuuuuuuu (p sure the author means “two faces of woman” in reference to cinematic portrayal not like as actual human beings)
ive always seen vertigo like this and this is why im a fan, even tho its questionable whether or not this is the point seeing as hitchock was a freak misogynist but :/ i want 2 believe

maybe id go hard for the white D if it was early 1990s london but its NOT

facebook gets me more than any man ever will

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