Wow. This one will blow your mind. Guaranteed.

I can now see where Paul Verhoeven got his inspiration. He was right when he said on the Basic Instinct commentary track that a lot of ideas for shots, costumes, and other stuff had come directly from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. The twisted mind of a genius.

There's something eerie, something haunting, about the whole thing. Well, I guess that's stating the obvious. The love affair between James Stewart and Kim Novak's characters touched a long lost fragment of the soul. Something eternal, perhaps. Something deep.

Hmmm... Vaguely spoiler-esque statements below. Nothing too specific, but be warned anyway.

There's loads of bitter irony here. Sympathetic, but bitter anyway. Fate has the last laugh. Poetic justice rules the day. But is it really?

Doesn't everyone just want to go back to the ocean? Back where the waves crash against the rocks, where the fog is thick in the air; where the mists of innocence shroud the unpleasant realities of vice. A place where, just in that moment, despite all the unknowns, everything is pure and no wrong can be done. That instant when love is the only power.

Hmmmm... A suspenseful, trippy movie, but also a profoundly sad one. I can't think of much more to say about it right now without going into blatent spoiler territory, so I'll let that be it.