«Vertigo», 1958, Alfred Hitchcock

Das muitas coisas inteligentes que a obra-prima de Hitchcock, Vertigo, nos permite dizer, melhor é ficar calado e pensar no seguinte:

At Ernie's, a high class San Francisco eatery, Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) is sitting at the bar. He looks over his shoulder; the place is full. The camera adopts his POV and glides through the crowded restaurant with its red wallpaper... and then a vision appears: a blonde woman in a green dress. The sudden, striking color contrast arrests the eye imediately, and like Scottie, we're hooked. This no accident, but the result of an extremely subtle manipulation of our perceptions. The camera, which had been slowly panning the room from right to left, now moves towards the table occupied by the misterious beauty (Kim Novak).
This is what it feels like to fall in love - and few films have captured the moment as Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece, Vertigo (1958 ...). Scottie's first encounter with Madeleine is unquestionably a magic moment, an almost sacred moment of moviemaking. To many film freaks, it represents the very essence of cinema.

Jürgen Müller/Nils Meyer in 100 All-Time Favorite Movies, Jürgen Müller (ed.), vol. 1: 1915 - 1959, Taschen, s.d.