If you ignore the storyline, this is a movie that explains the essence of the movie. What a movie is, in fact, it is nothing, in fact, what we usually see, hear, think, dream... These colorful and bizarre fragments of life just return to us once again through the screen. Whether you believe it or not, movies are our lives. Movies, like literature, are the best way to interpret human life.
Deeply speaking, "Rear Window" shows the relationship between the audience and the movie, just like Jeffery watching the neighbor’s life through the window. The composer plays the piano). Our watching a movie is actually an elegant and reasonable voyeuristic process. This is the same as a little kid lying on the window looking at the big girl on the opposite side.
Looking back at "Rear Window", the story is very simple, the space is relatively fixed, and the main characters appearing are also very limited. And it’s such a simple story, such a fixed space, such a small number of characters, and almost all of the characters are relatively static (the male protagonist estimates that he will have to move vigorously after the filming) Hitchcock can sort out so many pivotal stories, In the end, he can seamlessly connect all kinds of seemingly chaotic plots from a main line, and he is really a well-deserved master.
From the plot structure, "Rear Window" is composed of three stories. First, the love story between the photographer Jeffery and her girlfriend. To maintain the status quo, the two people have an irreconcilable contradiction on this point, but the two people love each other so deeply; Second, the living creatures of Jeffery’s neighbors, these are good movies to take out any one of them, frustrated But a talented composer, a beautiful but vain female dancer, a "lonely heart" lady who longs for love but can't get love, etc. Three: Family murder, the movie simply explained the reasons, but this story has always been passive, but even this contains all the factors of a good movie. We can understand that all the shots in "Rear Window" are peeping shots, and they are all approached with the eyes of "others". It really complied with the poem: You stand on the bridge and watch the scenery, and the people watching the scenery are looking at you upstairs. The bright moon decorates your windows, and you decorate other people's dreams. But don't think that these seemingly complicated short stories are irrelevant. In fact, each short story is an indispensable part of the film, and they are linked to each other. When Jeffery was lingering with his girlfriend, a melodious piano melody rang next to him. Jeffery’s doctor helped solve the case, and at the end he had a meaningful and noncommittal expression; the detective friend put us in the trap of negation and suspicion time and time again, The beautiful dancing girl made the film more sexy. The neighbor’s dog smelled the breath of death. It was Miss "Lonely Heart" who wanted to swallow sleeping pills that made Jeffery call the police for the first time, and so on, everyone. If you are interested, you can draw a story puzzle.
Technically, each house has three windows of different sizes that are initially open. This allows the lens to selectively lead us into the life in the movie. Under the panoramic view, we can also watch through different windows we want to see. life. Especially the setting of the three windows, the largest in the middle and small on the sides, are like three different theater stages. After a short interval, the actions and expressions of the characters (blocked by the wall) will change differently. The shooting technique is almost documentary. , So that we can weave one after another ups and downs. And the many windows in this movie make us overwhelmed, but also really let us experience the charm of the movie.
Regarding the most suspenseful and thrilling part of the film, when the murderer went to Jeffrey, the large part of the background music disappeared, replaced by endless darkness and silence, when the light outside the door goes out, when the flashlight gradually fades Lights up, our nerves are also drawn to the most tense position.
Of course, the most famous logos in Hitchcock movies are still the same. The beautiful blonde lady Grace Kelly, useless police, vital props (photos, flashing lights), emotional crisis, black Humor...Of course there is the fat old man who likes to flash in his own movie.
After watching this movie, I can’t help thinking, what is the essence of life, apart from those high-sounding reasons, isn’t it just the shuttle and peeping of each other? I get up in the morning, open the windows, and look at the weather outside, in traffic jams. Sit in the car or bus and look at the outside world. While waiting for the meal, he laughed at the next person's food, and when he was tired from work, he secretly looked at the beauty next to him. If we think about it, others are looking at you in the same way. For most of the day, you are staring at you with a single look...
it's still scary to think about it.
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