Tuesday, February 12, 2013

The Rear Window



The Rear Window is about a photographer who after breaking his leg is confined to his apartment home finding entertainment in spying in on his neighbors. In the care of his nurse Stella and girlfriend Lisa, Jeff finds nothing wrong in his peeping ways until he comes to the conclusion that one of his neighbors murdered his wife. The Rear Window for me was very interesting and captivating like any good murder mystery should be. The characters were very believable and delivered a great performance for the film.  The lecture for this film was focused on the Gaze meaning the perspective that the director wanted to focus from and what he/she wanted the audience to see from the film.  Lara Mulvey argued that the male gaze in The Rear Window was very sexist making the lead female character Lisa an object of male attention  which my opinion is true in a way but not to the point where it took away from her true talent as an actress. The movie really focused on the voyeuristic gaze from the character Jeff. The director really showed good angles of the movie kind of from the outside looking in from Jeff’s perspective. Overall I would say this was a good film.

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