What happens when the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice becomes obsession? Orpheus and Eurydice is all about not looking back, but in Vertigo we now can't look down either!

In this episode of A Tale Oft Told, we descend into Vertigo — a film about illusion, memory, identity, and the terrifying act of looking back.

Together we explore:

• the Orphic echoes hidden inside Vertigo
• obsession as a modern underworld
• Scottie Ferguson’s descent into illusion
• the myth of Pygmalion and reconstructed love
• why this film continues to haunt audiences decades later

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, Vertigo remains one of cinema’s most hypnotic tragedies.

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