A young woman traces her dull eyes passively along an endless space. Vertigo glazes her expression. Chalk dusts the sky and its particles whirl into gentle rings. Fine shards of illumination glimmer from the distending rift overhead. The night lights wink upon her while bursting. Matter dissolves now pale over the ink plane. A silver screen lines the brink. The mousy film on the horizon begins to bleed away as her vision dims somewhat. In the distance a voice hums a single iteration of speech, albeit indiscernible.
A certain shade of grey washes over the hills. Dull masses of ash, soot and sand drape the ground in soft tides. The young woman lays close mouthed. She extends her right hand to grasp at the stars. Ash dusts her palms and sieves over her body in a flurry. Upon blinking, the sky is empty. There is no light at this moment. Her flesh is unseen. Withdrawing her arm, she gazes into the dark.
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The young woman places her palm squarely in the center of it. Her heat accumulates onto the window in hazy wisps. She retracts her arm from the glass and frisks for the base of the window. The tips of her fingers stipple the wasted frame with prints. Placing her fingers along the seam she nudges upwards. The panel glides readily from its place. Warmth bubbles pleasantly into the air and ruffles the young women mousy tresses. A look of puzzlement carves into her brow.
Thrusting her body through the open window, she exits the barren house. Her soiled shoes surrender to a mass of brambles. The undergrowth bites and tears at the exposed skin of her ankles. The odor of brine and a nauseating sweetness suffocates the young woman’s lungs. She pants through the sticky breeze and trails her fingers through her hair. She can see the water glistening in monochrome facets beyond the horizon. It produces a dull humming noise as smoky water whips froth over dark grain. Striding for the sea her heels are cast into black velvet
The foamy wavelets curled up to her white feet and coiled like serpents about her ankles. She walked out. The water was chill but she walked on. The water was deep, but she lifted her white body and reached out with a long, sweeping stroke. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo is a thrilling film filled with mystery and suspense. However, Hitchcock left many unsolved issues at the end of this film. In contrast, when comparing Vertigo to more recent films of similar genre’, mysteries are usually always solved and thoroughly explained by the end of the film. Ironically, Hitchcock’s failure to explain everything to the audience in Vertigo is one of the film’s best attributes. This lack of knowledge allows the viewer to use their own imagination and speculate as to what might or might not have become of certain characters.
imagery of darkness. It is interesting to note how the speaker distinguishes these details, yet in
hitchcockVertigo stars James Stewart as Scottie, a retired detective, and Kim Novak as Judy Barton, who gets disguised as Madeleine, a woman hired by Scottie's friend to act as his wife in order to frame Scottie. The story takes place in San Francisco in the 1950's. The film opens on a high building, where officer Scottie and his partner are in pursuit of a suspect. Scottie's partner's life is on the line and only he can save him. Unfortunately, he has vertigo, a fear of heights. Scottie is unable to assist his partner who unfortunately falls to his death.
One specific characteristic of the house that symbolizes not only her potential but also her trapped feeling is the window. Traditionally this symbol represents a view of possibilities, but now it also becomes a view to what she does not want to see. Through it she sees all that she could be and everything that she could have. But she says near the end, "I don't like to look out of the windows even - there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast." She knows that she has to hide and lie low; she has to creep in order to be a part of society and she does not want to see all the other women who have to do the same because she knows they are a reflection of herself.
Her bedroom was closed but with an “open window” (463), with a roomy armchair she sank into. As she is looking out the window she sees “the tops of trees,” “new spring life,” “breath of rain was in the air,” and she could hear a peddler below in the street, calling to customers, and “patches of blue sky showing” (463). The author depicts in the previous sentence that when she uses “breath of rain was in the air,” rain is more like a cleansing so she could be feeling a sign of relief but can’t recognize it. She sat with her head on the cushion “quite motionless,” except when a sob came in her throat and “shook her,” like a child “continuously sobbing” (463) in its dreams. The author uses imagery in the previous
The water was calm, like the morning; both were starting to get ready for the day ahead. The silent water signals that although rough times occurred previously, the new day was a new start for the world. As I went closer to the water, I heard the subtle lapping of the water against the small rocks on the shore. Every sign of nature signals a change in life; no matter how slight, a change is significant. We can learn a lot from nature: whatever happens in the natural world, change comes and starts a new occurrence. I gazed over the water to where the sky met the sea. The body of water seemed to be endless under the clear blue sky. The scope of nature shows endless possibilities. Nature impresses us with the brilliant colors of the sky, the leaves, the water. She keeps us all in our places and warns us when we are careless with her. After all the leaves have fallen from the trees, she will offer us the first snows of the year to coat the earth with a tranquil covering. That will only be after we have recognized the lessons of autumn, the gradual change from warm to cold, rain to snow, summer to winter.
“Vertigo” was an American film released in 1958 by acclaimed filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock was widely regarded as the “master of suspense” in the film world, so it should be no surprise that “Vertigo” is a suspenseful film, focusing on elements like neo-noir and psychological thrills. Similar to Citizen Kane, “Vertigo” was initially met with a polarizing reaction from both critics and audiences, but as time went on people began to appreciate its style and it’s now regarded as a classic film, as well as being one of the most influential films. In this critique I’m going to give my thoughts on the several different aspects and themes of “Vertigo”, to understand why it is as highly touted as it is.
She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will--as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over...
The Book of Heather Waves crash hard against the walls of my mind. I feel as if I’m drowning and I’m swallowing the saltiness that burns the inside of my lungs. I can let go of myself and disappear into a different world and be a different person if I feel like losing the fight. Then, suddenly my eyes focus back on the word and I immediately realize I’m dry and breathing, in my bed.