Been thinking a lot about Kim ...

Rating: 9/10 (18 June 2005)

At least that's what Jimmy has been doing. Our boy is a former detective with an understandable case of trauma-induced vertigo whose weakness gets him played as the sap in a murder scheme. Along the way he gets sucked in by Novak, looking even better than she normally does (which is always fantastic). Fascinating study of obsession with a woman, in this case with a woman Stewart mistakenly believes is dead. Or does he? I didn't originally like this film as much as some of the more mainstream Hitchcock, Jimmy sure seemed to be wound uncomfortably tight. But I've come to slowly appreciate it through piecemeal viewings over the years, and NOBODY plays the unfathomable beauty better than Kim. At least to me there's some unanswered questions in this one, including when Jimmy is consciously or subconsciously on to the game. Great stuff with fantastic scenery.