perspective

Toy 2022-04-20 09:01:01

It's a unique perspective that Jeffrey couldn't have imagined and had before his foot injury.
Seeing everything from the neighbors through the rear window, it's not the legs in casts that trap the hero, but life. The sensitivity of a photojournalist leads Jeffrey to a murder.
"Hunger" is mentioned many times in the film: 1. The clay sculpture made by the lady who lives on the first floor is named "Hunger"; 2. The hero says his stomach is as empty as a football; 3. The husband of the virgin ballerina at the end The first thing I say when I get home is "I'm hungry". What is Hitchcock trying to tell us? ?

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Extended Reading
  • Danielle 2022-03-24 09:01:02

    In the climax of the film, Jeff used the camera flash against the neighbor who broke into the house, and wanted to recapture the neighbor as the image he was peeping through the rear window; the neighbor threw him out of the rear/real window (rear/real window); Isn’t this exactly what Hitchcock did to the audience? Let foreign objects in the real world pierce into the realm of imagination. This process is carried out through a series of "meta" structures in the film: whether it is the window frame suggesting the frame of the view, or the context of peeking and gaze-the lens often smoothly shifts from the first-person perspective to the third-person perspective. In terms of the reflexiveness of the suspense film, Jeff fell asleep at six o'clock on the day of the crime. The time gap is like the part of the interior that is not shown by the rear window, a stain; it not only suspends the truth, but also constitutes it. The "reality" itself; this stain is then the fulcrum of all actions, a membrane that connects desire and law. Of course, just like all Hollywood ends with a happy ending, Jeff finally sat back home and admired the peaceful view of the neighborhood in the rear window; in order to assure the audience of the daily routine outside the theater.

  • Mathilde 2022-03-26 09:01:01

    2016.6.30 Rewatch. Grace Kelly looks good no matter what she wears, especially the first set. "Blow-Up-1966" is exactly this foundation. Although one window and one thing are interesting, now I feel that everyone is acting in front of the window. In the next 30 minutes, even when I look at it now, I feel the same as I did when I was a child, and my heart touches my throat.

Rear Window quotes

  • [last lines]

    Newlywed woman: ...but if you'd told me you quit your job, we wouldn't have gotten married.

    Newlywed man: Oh, honey, come on.

  • Detective: [referring to what was buried in Thorwald's flower bed] He said the dog got too inquisitive, so he dug it up. It's in a hat box over in his apartment.

    Tom Doyle: Want to look?

    Stella: No thanks, I don't want any part of her.