Vertigo : My theory about the second half of the movie (Spoiler)

My theory about the second half of the movie (Spoiler)

That Scottie knew who Judy or suspected who she was when he saw her again and was conform to her identity when she put on the necklace. The reason he made her look like Madeleine was to take revenge out on her.

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So we are supposed to believe he didn't recognise her straight away or was that why he followed her? And where was the wife? I didn't get this.

Re: My theory about the second half of the movie (Spoiler)


bazt-93964 says > So we are supposed to believe he didn't recognise her straight away or was that why he followed her? And where was the wife? I didn't get this.
As you may recall, he kept 'seeing' her everywhere he went. He was consumed with the thought of Madeleine. When he finally sees someone who looks enough like her he sees an opportunity for a second chance. Apparently some people wouldn't mind a clone of the love they lost.

I would never seek out a guy who looked like someone I'd dated especially if he died under tragic circumstances. I'd be reliving it over and over. I'd also know I was not focused on the person I was with but the memory of the one I'd lost.

Anyway, Judy resembles Madeleine but she lacks the refinement and culture that Madeleine had. Judy is like a cheap replica. Part of what attracted him to Madeleine was how well she was pulled together. The fact Judy was receptive helped. Had she not been, he likely would have found someone else who looked similar.

The real Madeleine was apparently spending much of her time in the country while the fake one was filling in. At some point her husband strangled her and waited for fake Madeleine to arrive. He threw the already dead woman out the tower window. The police obviously assumed her neck was broken in the fall.

Today the scheme probably wouldn't have worked. The bell tower would have been searched and probably handled as a crime scene. Forensics would have showed that Madeleine was dead before she hit the ground. Assuming they looked for those things and I have to assume they would since Scottie fled the scene. It would have been evidence needed to either indict or clear him at the inquest.

Anyway, that's what happened. It was a good movie because it shows how easily some people can be manipulated to believe anything; however far-fetched.


Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]

Re: My theory about the second half of the movie (Spoiler)


mavrick721 says > That Scottie knew who Judy or suspected who she was when he saw her again and was conform to her identity when she put on the necklace. The reason he made her look like Madeleine was to take revenge out on her.
I disagree. In the movie he is obsessed with her so when he sees someone who looks like her he becomes transfixed with her and tries to make her over into the woman he thought he loved, tried to save but lost.

He may have felt there was something there but he wasn't really in his right mind. It wasn't until she wore the Carlota necklace that he knew she had to be the same person. He figured out what must have happened and took her back to the scene of the crime to get her to confess.

By then the guilt was eating away at her. She not only helped murder an innocent woman but she ruined a good guy's life; someone who genuinely loved her and who she loved in return. When she saw the nun it was more than she could take. Trying to flee, she slipped and fell out the same window she had supposedly already fallen out of before. Oops.


Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]
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