Original book ××××××××× After
watching the movie, I can’t help but mention the original book. The original book in the back window is a short story of more than 10,000 words. It had to be murder. The author Cornell Woolrich does not have Stanley in the detective novel world. Gardner's reputation is loud, but he is the darling of the film industry. More than 30 novels have been put on the screen, and even the new wave master Francois Truffault has made two.
Suspense ×××××××××
Hitchcock, who is famous for his suspense films, deliberately sold dog meat with sheep’s heads in the back window shooting. A lot of suspense details in the original book were deliberately downplayed in the movie, and replaced by the love scene between James Stewart and Grace Kelly, beautiful fashion beauties, clothes changed one after another, the plot is procrastination, The male audience is also worth the price. Therefore, it is a bit reluctant to call "Rear Window" a suspense film, but the film critics are still full of praise. As for the reason, the previous film review has already said it well, no need to repeat it, let's talk about voyeurism today.
Peeping Tom×××××××
The movie mentioned the saying Peeping Tom. In English, a voyeur is not called John or Peter, but Tom is also called Shi Keyi. Here's what Wikily says:
According to legend, Lady Godiva, who lived in the 11th century, was the beautiful wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia. At that time, Leofric imposed a heavy tax on the citizens of Coventry, and Mrs. Godiva kept begging her husband for tax relief, but he stubbornly refused. In the end, Leofric, fed up with his wife's constant pleas, declared that he would be willing to cut taxes as long as she could ride naked around the city streets. Mrs. Godiva did exactly what he said, and after announcing to the city that everyone was ordered to stay indoors and draw down the windows, she rode around the streets naked and with only long hair. One of the tailors, Tom, went blind by cutting a small hole in the window to peep in disobedience, the man who later became the English word for Peeping Tom. Afterwards, Godiva's husband kept his promise and pardoned the onerous tax.
This Lady Godiva is indeed a real person, and most of the stories of tax evasion on horseback are made up by later generations. It is a little ironic, but this voyeuristic ancestor of the culture actually peeked at a person who was openly naked in a public place like the street. lady. Godiva, the famous Belgian chocolate brand, borrowed the name from this story. According to the founder, the purpose of the name is because Godiva chocolate, like Lady Godiva, represents the combination of classic value and fearless courage in the new era (timeless values balanced with modern boldness), is it a bit speechless?
A point that has been repeated over and over in the film reviews of "Rear Window" over the years is very simple, that is, Hitchcock replaced the perspective of the male protagonist with a movie lens, so that the audience is immersed in the scene, and they have unknowingly experienced a voyeuristic look. Addiction; the relationship between the male protagonist and each family in the rear window is like the relationship between the audience and the screen. Take a closer look, the windows of every house in the film seem to be intentionally artistic exaggeration, not only are they large in size, but the windows are opened 180 degrees against the outer wall, sexy ballerinas, composers' parties, single mothers. The pain seems to be the privacy that we most want to peep in our hearts, and even the middle-aged couple simply slept on the balcony, and even the peeping through the window was avoided.
For a long time, British and American laws have been powerless against voyeurism, and many cases have become very famous. For example, in the case of Frey v. Fedoruk in Canada in 1947, an old man surnamed Frey went to spy on someone after 11 o'clock in the middle of the night. It is said that he peeked at a middle-aged woman. After being discovered, the son of the family chased out with a knife. , caught an active police report, and Frey sued the police for illegally arresting him. The case went to the Supreme Court of Canada, and the final ruling was that the arrest was illegal. Although voyeurism caused mental harm to the victim, it did not prove that the violent response brought about was reasonable and could not be classified as a criminal offense. There are many similar cases in the United Kingdom and the United States. It was not until May 2004 that the United Kingdom included voyeurism as a criminal offence for the first time. In 2005, Canada also made voyeurism a sexual crime. included in the category of criminal offenses.
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