... , communicating to the audience that Madeleine is constructed as a fictional character rather than a real person. Her slow, deliberate, movements as she steps out of the room, her ethereal white blonde hair, her distant eyes, dreamy voice and lingering gestures are all components of a contrived, haunted persona, yet they also represent the unattainable qualities of an ideal woman that Scottie becomes hopelessly ... ...

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