Vertigo's Catholic Appeal

A brief, well written Catholic take on the local's favorite film, now considered the BFEM (Best Film Ever Made).

Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ Tops Sight and Sound Poll

From the article:

 But to focus solely upon the “suspense,” as Hitchcock’s contemporaries did when they panned the film, means to miss the larger aims of the movie. “Vertigo” is in essence a film about the Communion of Saints. It echoes the prayer of St. Raphael, “Lead us to those we are waiting for, those who are waiting for us.” It closely reflects T. S. Eliot’s lines from “Four Quartets”: We die with the dying:/See, they depart, and we go with them. / We are born with the dead:/See, they return, and bring us with them.”