"Rear Window" is a classic suspense thriller by Hitchcock. As a work from the 1950s, after watching it decades later, it still feels that the classic is worthy of being a classic. In this era, when all kinds of shooting equipment and special effects are relatively complete, although I have seen many suspense thrillers with perfect visual effects, I found that after watching the audience, they generally only care about the reversal of the movie and who is the murderer. The problem that a suspense thriller brings to us seems to be enough now. In Hitchcock's film, the director's idea and purpose are not simply to let people guess the murderer, as The core of a suspense film is not suspense but family, the different states of marriage, and the relationship between husband and wife. In a film with suspense as the appearance, not only the murder case is seen, but the audience is taken from a peeping From the perspective, we pay attention to the various states of marital relations. I saw a sentence before, probably saying that the ultimate purpose of the movie is to let the audience see themselves in the movie. Hitchcock still interprets the true portrayal of thousands of households from the perspective of a suspense movie. I think it is very good. It's not easy, which is why he's such a great director.
In addition, the perspective adopted by the director in "Rear Window" is also very special. Hitchcock adopted a "peeping" perspective to show the audience the story in each window. Speaking of voyeurism, in fact, human beings themselves have the psychology of peeping at other people's privacy, which is an innate instinctive desire, because everyone's self-knowledge needs to use others as a real reference. I have seen a passage that a psychiatrist said, "As long as the personality is not mature, people will still be keen to spy on other people's privacy." Hitchcock adopted such a voyeuristic perspective to satisfy the audience's "voyeuristic desire", and added elements of marriage and love, allowing the audience to compare and think about their state of marriage or love and the expression in the film. The director never shows a correct answer or a correct marriage, but sorts it out so that the audience can think and understand for themselves. Maybe the director is also discussing the real look of marriage with the audience. This is what this movie really wants. something to express.
My favorite in "Rear Window" is Hitchcock's Lisa, played by Grace Kelly, and in the few suspense films I've seen, many female characters are used as vases, Beneath the beautiful appearance, there is only an empty shell in the heart, not to mention the transformation of the characters, while Hitchcock is very unique as a male director. Kelly's shaping is extremely laborious, from every set of makeup and hair, every appearance. , all bring the audience a completely different experience, from the fragile and delicate fairy to the brave, courageous and down-to-earth woman, which makes the audience fall in love with this character.
In addition, Hitchcock's grasp of the rhythm of "Rear Window" is also very unique. Generally, suspense dramas need to be fast-paced, with many broken details, strong plot and story, and rely on fast rhythm, time and space transformation and editing to let the audience. Doubt creates a desire to explore, but Hitchcock did the opposite, telling the story gently, and it took a long time to build the core of the whole story, which is also the core of the Hitchcock suspense film mentioned earlier Suspenseful reason.
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