Vertigo

The third film that we watched in class was Vertigo in 1956. This film also starts with a graphic match from an eye to swirling vertigo patterns to an eye. This film starts with action as the main character, John Ferguson, is chasing someone with a fellow police officer across the room tops of San Francisco. This is when he realises that he has vertigo which is phobia of heights. This starts the plot of the film off as the rest of the film is about him dealing with the problem. Alfred Hitchcock does this as he is not giving too much away but giving enough mystery and action so that the audience will watch on to find out what happens to John.