Expert Witness

When I did "Abigail's Party" I remember there was a big conflab about whether we should employ 1970's CPR or contemporary CPR for maximum realism. With the hypnosis in "Vertigo" we have a similar dilemma about hypnotic technique, so we were very interested in what Ilmo, an experimental psychologist working at the University, would have to say about it.
It's rare that the input of experts changes the entire landscape of your understanding of the show, but Ilmo's insights were global, and relevant to everyone. The most dramatic for me was a possible hypnosis echo in Roger's treatment of Renee, which gave me goose-pimples, but his observations about Renee's possible desire to purge herself of both her guilt and her terrible life experiences added a really strong motivation to the complicity she shows in allowing herself to be groomed as Madeleine.



Poor old Roger. Doesn't stand a chance really....