Hitchcock is not a "suspense master". He really looked at the whole event from Jeff's perspective and was substituted into the whole event. The audience, like Jeff, peeped through the window to peep at the ballet girl, the lonely lady, and the pianist to suspect the salesman and other neighbors. privacy day in and day out, there's no question that we trusted Jeff from the start. The film is like a staged performance, and the narrative space is concentrated in this residential building, but it is through Hitchcock's story setting and lens design that the shooting is so wonderful! The perspective setting itself is very clever. The audience peeks at Jeff's life through the screen window, and the audience peeks at the neighbor's life through the telescope through the window. This ring is wonderful, and Jeff is a photographer by profession, Due to his own professional ethics, he has developed a habit of observing everything beyond ordinary people, so he is so careful to discover and promote the continuous progress of the story. Since the shooting locations are concentrated in residential areas, the director used a lot of rich camera movements, such as the use of long lenses to construct spatial relationships and show spatial integrity; and telephoto lenses to observe people's lives.
In addition, for Hitchcock, who advocates star system, the heroine of almost every work is a dazzling blond beauty, such as Ingrid Bergman, and Kelly. Kelly plays the noble and elegant in the film just like herself, Greatly attracted the attention of the audience. In the film, Kelly and Stewart's kisses were all shot in close-up close-ups, and the emotional atmosphere between the two can really be felt across a screen! Reminds me of the kiss with Godard's "Exhausted". (There is a line in the film where the police officer Doyle said to Jeff: "your lisa?" "my lisa", so sweet)
There is not much communication between the neighbors, they don't even know what the real murdered lady looks like, they each live in their own circles, the ballet girl's room has all kinds of suitors, and the lonely lady is alone Lou, as well as pianists, newlyweds, couples with dogs who don't even know a murder is happening where they live. Even though people live so close together, the walls are separated from the friendly exchanges between people.
In public places, why don't people live under the watchful eyes of others, expose their every move, and then be "peeped" by others, labeling, just like in the film I named the woman living on the first floor "Mrs. Lonely". Hitchcock's appearance seemed to mark his own film, "Yes, I am the director, this is my film."
Vertigo begins with a similar plot at the end with Jeff hanging in the window. Coppola's "Conversation" Antonioni's "Zoom", although the themes of the three films are very different, they are very similar in terms of the alienation of Western interpersonal relationships.
Hitchcock is really showing us the stories of life, and the entire residential building seems to be a microcosm of society.
But the ending is still a Hollywood-style sweet and happy ending. The Lonely Lady resonates with the pianist, the newlyweds begin to enter a real marriage with quarrels, and of course the dog-owning couple has another puppy, jeff I didn't escape from Lisa's "palm"~ Life goes on
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