peep

Genoveva 2022-04-24 07:01:01

You're peeping out of the window, and the audience in front of the screen is peeping at you.

Alyssa's "wild". Unforgettable, elegant and fashionable beautiful sister, wearing a sleeveless A-line skirt, stepping on a small high-heeled wall and climbing a ladder, the contrast of entering the room privately. Not a princess who can only sit in a carriage, but a knight princess!

I thought it would be very mysterious, but what I didn't expect to guess turned out to be the truth. Perhaps this is also what the protagonists experience? The answer is about to come out, but there is no evidence. Hitchcock did not engage in a plot of reversal + reversal + reversal + reversal, as if to let the audience push the progress bar bit by bit through the protagonist's point of view.

"Viewpoint". Some netizens discussed that Hitchcock's films are not about the plot, but about the language of the film. I plan to use the process of winning the badge to experience it~

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Extended Reading
  • Daphney 2021-10-20 18:59:56

    Get used to the old man's climax in the last few minutes and Grace Kelly's grace like dancing through the window. Women will always have more infinite curiosity and more bizarre imaginations than men. Modern people have evolved from voyeurism to exhibitionism, and the causes are all emptiness and loneliness.

  • Danielle 2022-03-24 09:01:02

    In the climax of the film, Jeff used the camera flash against the neighbor who broke into the house, and wanted to recapture the neighbor as the image he was peeping through the rear window; the neighbor threw him out of the rear/real window (rear/real window); Isn’t this exactly what Hitchcock did to the audience? Let foreign objects in the real world pierce into the realm of imagination. This process is carried out through a series of "meta" structures in the film: whether it is the window frame suggesting the frame of the view, or the context of peeking and gaze-the lens often smoothly shifts from the first-person perspective to the third-person perspective. In terms of the reflexiveness of the suspense film, Jeff fell asleep at six o'clock on the day of the crime. The time gap is like the part of the interior that is not shown by the rear window, a stain; it not only suspends the truth, but also constitutes it. The "reality" itself; this stain is then the fulcrum of all actions, a membrane that connects desire and law. Of course, just like all Hollywood ends with a happy ending, Jeff finally sat back home and admired the peaceful view of the neighborhood in the rear window; in order to assure the audience of the daily routine outside the theater.

Rear Window quotes

  • [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]

  • [Thorwald forces Jeff's apartment door open and stands before him, closing the door behind him]

    Lars Thorwald: What do you want from me?

    [Jeff does not reply]

    Lars Thorwald: Your friend, the girl, could have turned me in. Why didn't she?

    [no reply]

    Lars Thorwald: What do you want? A lot of money? I don't have any money.

    [no reply]

    Lars Thorwald: Say something.

    [no reply]

    Lars Thorwald: Say something! Tell me what you want!

    [Jeff continues to remain silent]

    Lars Thorwald: Can you get me that ring back?

    L.B. Jefferies: No.

    Lars Thorwald: Tell her to bring it back!

    L.B. Jefferies: I can't. The police have it by now.