an amazing ghost story

Rating: 10/10 (9 January 2014)

Ghosts abound in this film. Why? It's a ghost story. The only question is whether Scottie is in hell or somewhere in between hell and heaven as he hallucinates his visions. From the impossible rescue from the roof...to the Midge...the surreal creature who knows all...to Judy who is also a ghost...Ernie's Restaurant, the womblike breeding ground of ghosts...as the object of his desire glides toward the exit...Scottie never quite making eye contact...nobody does. He sees Madeline's ghostly shadow in the hotel room window but when he goes up nobody is there. Madeline wears no undergarments when she falls into SF Bay...she has no need for them. Very unlike Midge...there she is again...whose work is to design scaffolding for women's bodies...as she gazes at the Bay Bridge scaffolding. Question remains if Hitch knew it was a ghost story. That is his brilliance really. The creation surpasses its creator.