Rear Window

The whole premise for Rear Window works really well. Jeffries’s and Lisa’s grows as the movie goes along and we as the audience are allowed to witness it happening. We get to see how Jeffries’s attitude towards Lisa attitude undergoes a dramatic change. We get to see a side of Lisa that we probably would never have seen if not for the circumstances of the film. And finally, we get to see how by working together to solve this crime, they are brought closer together and their true feelings are revealed for each other.

The different apartments across from Jeffries’s apartment and the people that live in there help to serve as mirrors for Jeffries’s and Lisa’s own lives. Miss Lonelyhearts for example. You could make the connection that she is like Lisa in the fact that she wants someone to love and is having trouble accomplishing that. The composer and and Lisa share a common frustration in being unable to accomplish their goal as well. His to write a good song and her to marry Jeffries, although both goals are achieved by movie’s end. Miss Torso is unique in that her and Lisa are both pretty and seem to be waiting or searching for something or someone. The newlyweds and the Thorwalds are both couples that appear fine on the surface but underneath there are problems. The same could be said about Jeffries’s and Lisa’s relationship. But all three have very different endings. The Thorwalds of course being murder and tragedy, we don’t see it but we might make the assumption that the newlyweds get a divorce, and then Jeffries and Lisa live happily ever after, or so we assume.

Throughout the film, Jeffries and Lisa’s relationship is constantly being put to the test. In the end, the events of the movie help to bring them closer together and help to break down some of the barriers that Jeffries had placed in front of Lisa. By having this adventure together, Jeffriess is able to see that Lisa can handle herself and Lisa is able to find out that she can handle a life like that.

Overall Hitchcock did a really good job of making sure that the details in the movie were done right because it is the details that most people seem to take notice of. Its be cause of the film class I took that I say that everything he did in the movie was on purpose, what I mean to say is that nothing was accidental in its placement. For a master of his craft like Hitchcock, the small things that he gets us to notice are probably what he enjoyed the most.