In the film Vertigo directed by Alfred Hitchcock, madness is depicted as an obsessive but excessively neurotic state of being. Scottie, a police detective, is psychologically and figuratively scarred by a rooftop chase, which leaves him with a phobia. Madeline, a woman whom Scottie is forced to follow, is missing and socially invisible to a life that does not reveal her identity, apparently believing herself to be a reincarnated version of a woman named Carlotta. Hitchcock glorifies Scottie's loss of reality, making him a detached spectator of the world, yet portrays Madeline trapped in her mental illusion of mirroring a woman to be the "rebirth of herself", seeming to consciously distance herself from a timeless and unrealistic world . world. In Hitchcock's Vertigo, Freud's death instinct is dramatized, as Scottie Ferguson is condemned to repeat his trauma to make things right, however, the circumstances of his tragedy are that although he is able to relive the trauma, he can't put things right. , every time a completely new trauma occurs. Hitchcock captures moments where the audience is able to see visceral experiences with Madeline and Scottie through the use of camera movements. In the first scene of the film, viewers see a chase where a man is literally hanging from a roof, holding on tightly so as not to fall to his death. Hitchcock uses the zoom effect to heighten Scottie Ferguson's fear of heights, as well as providing the detective's point of view of dizziness to draw the audience into Scottie's emotional state of being. This traumatic experience of witnessing the policeman fall and die represents the fact that every experience will end tragically. The chase between detectives... middle of paper... for a murder. He realized that he was in love with a certain image of a woman, not necessarily a dead woman. Hitchcock demonstrates his points through people struggling to understand and accept their past and move forward. He reminds his audience that the past is a formation of memories that will always be an essential element of your identity, however it does not have to define who you are. Your past should not be given the extra attention and importance it deserves. This is where Scottie struggles, his obsessive tendencies seem to take over his life and consume his thoughts. And he is incapable of seeing past his traumatic experiences, only to repeat them hoping for a better outcome. At the end of the film, he realizes that the act of trying to repeat scenarios leads to reliving the same experiences, recognizing that nothing will ever change..