History TearJerker / Vertigo

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* It's easy to miss during the TheOner Big Kiss scene, but during the kisses Scottie and Judy share, there is a brief moment where Scottie hugs her with a slightly pained expression on his face. It's not just the fact that Scottie has his LostLenore back. In that brief moment shows that he's missed her and it's enough to cause a tear to form.

* It's easy to miss during the TheOner Big Kiss scene, but during the kisses Scottie and Judy share, there is a brief moment where Scottie hugs her with a slightly pained expression on his face. It's not just the fact that Scottie has her back, that brief moment shows that he's missed her.

* When you consider what everything Scottie goes through and what Gavin sets up, the entire film is one long series of traumas that you can't help but feel sorry for him.

* When you consider what everything Scottie goes through and what Gavin sets up, the entire film is one long series of traumas that is a tear jerk.

*** Or, an alternate to the above, Scottie was trying to be a gentleman by taking Judy on a date, but due to a gray-suited woman resembling Madeleine showing up, it pushes him back into his guilt. And with how Judy notices the gray-suited woman and then she looks at Scottie, she has a look of realization of how much she's hurt him and tilts her head down in shame. That's right, even though she was "just the tool" for Gavin Elster, she recognizes the harm she's caused.

*** Or, an alternate to the above, Scottie was trying to pay attention to Judy, but due to a gray-suited woman resembling Madeleine showing up, it pushed him back into his guilt. And with how Judy notices the gray-suited woman and how she looks at Scottie, she has a look of realization of how much she's hurt him and tilts her head down in shame.

* The entire film when you consider what Scottie goes through: first he let's a fellow police officer who was trying to help him fall to his death after he discovered his fear of heights. This leads to Elster finding out about it and then concocting a plan to murder his wife under the pretense that she commits suicide because she's insane, convincing Scottie to follow Judy made over to be Madeleine. He then falls in love with her and she clearly falls for him. And then he thinks he failed to save her from committing suicide, which in turn leads him into a HeroicBSOD and he ends up losing his best friend Midge. After finally recovering some, he can't let go of what happened to the point where he goes to places where he followed Madeleine to. And then he finds Judy, tries to start a relationship with her and then his obsession kicks in to make her over into Madeleine. And when she agrees and he finally has "Madeleine" back, he sees the necklace and realizes that the woman he fell in love with didn't exist. And just as he put things together, Judy ends up dead (by accident or by jumping to her death out of fear). The entire film is one long series of trauma that ends with him losing everything yet again. If that's not a tear-jerking thought, what else is there?

* Midge's final scenes also count (not including the alternate ending). You see her visiting Scottie after his psychotic break, talking to him and trying to get him to laugh with no results. She tries to assure him that she's still there for him, but doesn't get a response. When she talks to the Doctor, before she turns to slowly walk off, the look on her faces shows that she realizes that as much as she cares about him, she can't help him.

** It's one for Judy because she had already gone through a lot in the film, plus being at the mission tower again triggered memories of her last visit and cause her to suspect something was up. She also knew she would never be able to satisfy Scottie's needs, now that he knew the truth about the murder, and she literally jumped to her own death.

*** Or, an alternate to the above, Scottie was trying to pay attention to Judy, but due to a gray-suited woman resembling Madeleine showing up, it pushed him back into his trauma. And with how Judy notices the gray-suited woman and how she looks at Scottie, she has a look of realization of how much she's hurt him and tilts her head down in shame.

** Also, Scottie had taken Judy to Ernie's because it was where she had first met "Madeleine", but barely paid any attention to Judy as he was more interested in a gray-suited woman resembling Madeleine. Yep, his love for Madeleine was that strong.

* Midge's final scenes also count. You see her visiting Scottie after his psychotic break, talking to him and trying to get him to laugh with no results. She tries to assure him that she's still there for him, but doesn't get a response. When she talks to the Doctor, before she turns to slowly walk off, the look on her faces shows that she realizes that as much as she cares about him, she can't help him.

** It's also one for Scottie, because he had just realize the love of his life had never even existed and her supposed love helped to murder the real one. And then he had to witness Judy die for real. The man got paralyzed after seeing Judy's ''fake'' death (and Madeleine's real death), just imagine how he's going to react to seeing Judy die for real-- and the closest thing he's had to Madeleine.

* Madeleine pretty much goes through hell for most, if not all of the movie. Even's revealed that Judy turned out to be Gavin's partner in crime and accomplice in Gavin killing her wife and making it look like suicide, she tried to call Scottie and inform him on what was really happening, but Gavin held onto her and covered her mouth so she couldn't warn Scottie.