Suspense in the rear window

Christelle 2022-04-21 09:01:02

First of all, this film tells a suspenseful story, although from the current point of view, the suspenseful setting is a bit simple. The various signs seen from the window made one have to suspect that the middle-aged salesman seemed to have committed a murder. So investigation, reasoning, approaching, so slowly come to the truth of the incident.

Second, it's a love story, and Lisa, played by Grace Kelly, shines every time she appears. In the end she completely conquered the heart of the hero with her daring actions.

But when you think about it, it seems that Hitchcock is not just telling these two obvious popular stories.

Looking back, the photographer actor broke a leg due to work, and could only pass the time while sitting in a wheelchair in a plaster cast and looking out the window every day. What did he see? Lonely Lonely Miss Fangxin is playing a one-man show in the room, a composer is troubled about not being able to write a good piece, a ballet girl is wandering among her companions, attracting butterflies, a middle-aged salesman and his wife in bed An unhappy marriage, and the newlyweds who just moved in with their windows closed all day long, must be a glue-like love. And the male protagonist himself, hesitant to think that the perfect girlfriend in the fashion circle is not the right person for his life partner. Except for the composer, everyone is facing their own love and marriage.

How many lonely people have thought about using sleeping pills to end themselves, and how many marriages finally make people just want to end each other's life.

In the end, Miss Lonely Reassured was rescued by music, which gave people a touch of comfort. The newlyweds were complaining because their husband lost their job. They seemed to see the shadow of a middle-aged salesman and her wife. His heart should have settled down, Lisa was sitting next to her in jeans, holding a book across the Himalayas and reading, a girl who took the initiative to change for love. . But wait, after seeing Jeff falling asleep, she put down the journey through the Himalayas and picked up her favorite fashion magazine and read it happily - this last scene seems to be laying the groundwork for their future married life.
In the hot summer, the whole story is warm and calm. However, the temperature is getting cooler. Thinking about it this way, it really makes me chill.

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Rear Window quotes

  • L.B. Jefferies: I've seen bickering and family quarrels and mysterious trips at night, and knives and saws and ropes, and now since last evening, not a sign of the wife. How do you explain that?

    Lisa Fremont: Maybe she died.

    L.B. Jefferies: Where's the doctor? Where's the undertaker?

  • [Jeff dials the number for Thorwald's phone. Thorwald is seen from a distance walking over to the phone and standing by it]

    L.B. Jefferies: [quietly to himself] Come on, Thorwald, answer it. Come on, you're curious. You wonder if it's your girlfriend calling. The one you killed for. Go on, pick it up!

    [Thorwald is seen picking up the phone]

    Lars Thorwald: [voice] Hello?

    L.B. Jefferies: Did you get my note? Well, did you get it Thorwald?

    Lars Thorwald: [voice] Who are you?

    L.B. Jefferies: I'll give you a chance to find out. Meet me in the bar at the Albert Hotel. Do it right away.

    Lars Thorwald: [voice] Why should I?

    L.B. Jefferies: A little business meeting... to settle the estate of your late wife.

    Lars Thorwald: [voice] I... I don't know what you mean.

    L.B. Jefferies: Come on, quit stalling or I'll hang up and call the police. Would you like that?

    Lars Thorwald: [voice] I only have 100 dollars or so.

    L.B. Jefferies: That's a start. I'm at the Albert now. I'll be looking for you.

    [Jeff hangs up]