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Adah 2022-04-20 09:01:01
The movie "Rear Window" tells the story of photographer Jeff during his time at home due to an injury. For Jeff, who has been deprived of his freedom of walking, his daily pastime is and can only be to open his eyes to the window. The lives of the neighbors unfolded for Jeff with some regularity. Jeff occupies the position of an impartial viewer at a distance. Allows him to see through the window panorama. However, the monotony of daily life tortured Jeff day by day. Every day, the neighbors' daily routines are fixed, and all Jeff sees is what they unintentionally show in their windows. If the director was an avant-garde artist, he might directly replace Jeff's position with a camera and use the lens to capture the daily life. regularity and randomness. But Hitchcock didn't do that, he made a suspense film, he introduced the plot, he set Jeff's face and identity, and thus introduced the trivial daily life of an ordinary person. The plot unfolds from here - Jeff sees extraordinary events, the disappearance of a salesman's wife, the strange behavior of the salesman, suspicious boxes, suspicious leather bags, suspicious jewelry all appear as signifiers, alluding to a Murder, which happened to be what Jeff didn't see - at this time, the viewer Jeff changed from a panorama to a single-point gaze, and revealed that Jeff, who thought he was omniscient, was not the center of power, and was Open Eyes ignored Jeff's gaze and lived their lives. The suspect was not afraid when he learned that someone was watching him, but Jeff became more and more afraid as the truth was revealed step by step. Despite being at the center of the panorama, every exploration of the viewer toward Jeff's center causes him to retreat. At the climax of the film, when the most suspenseful and terrifying scene appeared, Jeff threw the light bulb hopelessly to prevent the killer from approaching. When his gaze met the killer's gaze, Jeff completely lost the certain distance he occupied, The position of the unbiased viewer. and is imprisoned in the present situation, that is, he becomes part of the object he is looking at.
Extended Reading
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Stella: When I married Miles, we were both a couple of maladjusted misfits. We are still maladjusted misfits, and we have loved every minute of it.
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L.B. Jefferies: Would you fix me a sandwich, please?
Stella: Yes, I will. And I'll spread a little common sense on the bread.