I wanted to really love this, but was not the biggest fan. I loved the SF shots and it was so cool to see places I have walked through so many times. I also liked the blue and red colors. The plot itself was straight out of a scooby-doo episode, and then after the “big” twist, the movie just got weird and maybe I just didn’t understand, but I didn’t really get what Hitchcock was going after.

I wanted to really love this, but was not the biggest fan. I loved the SF shots and it was so cool to see places I have walked through so many times. I also liked the blue and red colors. The plot itself was straight out of a scooby-doo episode, and then after the “big” twist, the movie just got weird and maybe I just didn’t understand, but I didn’t really get what Hitchcock was going after.

It’s just really not my type of movie, I don’t find romantic murder mystery’s interesting at all but I gotta watch them so I can get through the top 250 movies list on IMDB. I find these types of movies so stupid because they are always so unrealistic when it comes to someone falling in love with someone else. In the movie it’s like 10 seconds after meeting them and they are just up and making out, and that’s with said woman being like married or something, nah not for me. The twist at the end was good though.

It’s just really not my type of movie, I don’t find romantic murder mystery’s interesting at all but I gotta watch them so I can get through the top 250 movies list on IMDB. I find these types of movies so stupid because they are always so unrealistic when it comes to someone falling in love with someone else. In the movie it’s like 10 seconds after meeting them and they are just up and making out, and that’s with said woman being like married or something, nah not for me. The twist at the end was good though.

wow.

wow.

You know what, despite the blatant male gazey-ness of this film, I have to bump it an extra half star due to how much I really appreciate this film. On my first watch (late 2024, oh how I wish I had Letterboxd then,,) I rented it on YouTube and watched it on my phone … (I’m sorry Christopher Nolan please don’t come for my family)
Back then, the earliest film I had watched was Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory, so this film was my first proper introduction to Classic Hollywood, and what an introduction it was! I got into Hitchcock as a director and James Stewart as an actor, leading me to discover some of my favourite films of all time!
I think if I was to tell you my favourite scene in the entire film, it would have to be the final scene, I won’t spoil it here but James Stewart and Kim Novak were absolutely amazing here, and the dolly zoom literally changed my life LOL

Overall I heavily recommend this film, one of Hitchcock’s best!!

You know what, despite the blatant male gazey-ness of this film, I have to bump it an extra half star due to how much I really appreciate this film. On my first watch (late 2024, oh how I wish I had Letterboxd then,,) I rented it on YouTube and watched it on my phone … (I’m sorry Christopher Nolan please don’t come for my family)
Back then, the earliest film I had watched was Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory, so this film was my first proper introduction to Classic Hollywood, and what an introduction it was! I got into Hitchcock as a director and James Stewart as an actor, leading me to discover some of my favourite films of all time!
I think if I was to tell you my favourite scene in the entire film, it would have to be the final scene, I won’t spoil it here but James Stewart and Kim Novak were absolutely amazing here, and the dolly zoom literally changed my life LOL

Overall I heavily recommend this film, one of Hitchcock’s best!!

Nice man saves girl from the San Francisco Bay! (brings her unconscious body home, undresses her, puts her in his bed) And makes her a nice warm coffee. What a gentleman!

Nice man saves girl from the San Francisco Bay! (brings her unconscious body home, undresses her, puts her in his bed) And makes her a nice warm coffee. What a gentleman!