In the vein of mimesis I found the relationship of Scottie and Madeleine to be intriguing. Scottie starts to get obsessed with Madeleine who is in effect attempting to "mimic" Carlotta (in the form of hair style, the flowers, and the room). When Madeleine "dies" Scottie shifts his obsession onto Judy, who he crafts into a spitting image of Madeleine, having her "mimic" the way Madeleine dresses and acts. But when the viewer finds out that Judy was Madeleine all along, this image gets more complicated. Judy (who Scottie is making into a "copy" of Madeleine) has actually been "mimicking" the real Madeleine all along (up until her "death") and while mimicking Madeleine, Judy is also mimicking Carlotta as well. So by the end of the movie, Scottie falls in love with a copy of a copy of a copy (turning Judy into Madeleine who was Madeleine acting like Carlotta). This is all vaguely in line with the theory of performativity (very vaguely) but something that I noticed and found interesting.