Kim Novak speaks my favorite line from what is one of my very favorite movies, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. I can't really tell you why I love that line; maybe it's because when she says it we're in the very center of the fantasy, the obsession, the dream-world that Jimmy Stewart as Scottie Ferguson finds himself in, has entered whole-heartedly and willingly into. It's before any doubt or any of the real world has begun to reveal itself and wake him from his sleepwalk.
And, that it's a tender, genuine expression of gratitude for the simplest, most basic human need; of warmth, both literal and the warmth that comes from nearness to another, the other. Even though on the surface there is deception involved, at her core it's closeness that she desires.
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I too love this movie, which has everything to do with your having educated me on all things "Hitchcock".
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