I finally had a chance to watch the movie and was pleasantly surprised.  After hearing everyone talk I thought I wouldn’t like because it sounded so deep.  Well, it was deep on many levels.  The part about Vertigo that I find challenging is the notion that love can make you dizzy, off-balance, nauseous, crazy and murderous.  Scottie tormented himself in the name of love.  He went to Hell and back again in order to have Madeline.  He suffered a mental breakdown, obsession and depression in the name of love.  He committed himself so completely that I can truthfully say that he was in love with love.   No, actually he was in obsessed with love.  Obsessions are not healthy and neither was Scottie.  There did seem to be the recognition that he was out of touch with reality.  However, even this realization did not give him the ability to break his obsession. 

 Like Scottie, Eben was powerless to regin in his feelings.  I agree with Robyn that Eben was in love with the idea of being inspired.  It doesn’t even matter any more whether or not Jennie was real because he too was in love with an idea.  He was in love with the idea of a woman transcending time to be with him.  Scottie was also in love with this notion except that Scottie was in love with a woman that did not exist. 

Scottie and Eben are actors playing imaginary people.  But, how easily could any of us fall into that trap?  That notion is terrifying.  With a little imagination any of us could become Eben or Scottie falling into the trap of loving someone or something that doesn’t exist.