In the 1958 film, Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock examines the vast intricacies of the dizzyinging effects of vertigo. Hitchcock examined the ailment in a physical, mental, and almost supernatural form. Some of the insights are easy to spot, but others are buried deep within the cognitive caverns of the scripting, acting, and production of the film. According to Doctor Robert Herting and Doctor Nora Frohberg of the University of Iowa, vertigo is “A sense that the environment …showed first 75 words of 720 total…

…showed last 75 words of 720 total…the spectator lower into the blackness of uncertainty and tingling ambition. I think Alfred Hitchcock’s goal for Vertigo, was to make the viewing audience actually experience the feeling of mental, and possibly even physical, vertigo whilst experiencing this film. After having seen this work, I believe that he accomplished his goal with flying colors. The plot changes, the scenario twists, and the dynamic acting of the star players was superbly Hitchcockian, and superbly exemplary.