Rear Window Obscures Murder And Makes It More Terrifying
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Free Software fundamentally misses the point. It fails on a practical, ideological, economic, and political level. Let’s examine precisely how (in a slightly different order for the purposes of presentation).
Peeping Toms are great, they're the heart of the Japanese comedy films and entertainment.Who doesn't want to see a guy take pictures of girl's underwear? ↩ Reply
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Just listening in to a girl showering, nothing creepy ↩ Reply
There is something marvelous about being limited and being unable to fully express an idea through direct means, instead cloaking it in the clothing of allegories. Think of the scene from A Clockwork Orange, where the protagonist strokes his "snake" (penis). It is a cinematic language, by which Stanley Kubrick, expressed an idea without being overtly obvious. Covert messages are there to further deepen the art, without stripping it naked, like the first man and woman. Speaking of which, could the penis allegory be the reason why Eve listened to the Serpent in the Garden of Eden, could've been an obscure way of saying that she saw a guy with a big dick? ↩ Reply
Now, such playfulness with imagery comes quite a useful asset when there is a commission breathing down your neck, withholding creative liberty. I speak, of course, of The Code, which forced all films to be what nowadays be termed PG. ↩ Reply
The man who took full advantage of the restriction was Alfred Hitchcock. Desiring to make films that didn't tick off the men in the gray suits, he found clever methods of obfuscating the sex & violence. ↩ Reply
In case of the film Rear Window, the gaze was turned to the outside of the titular rear window. Through it, the protagonist Jeff (James Stewart) looks out to the neighbors and sees their life brew. If it does sound like a David Fincher film The Killer, where there is an assassin looking out through a window waiting for a prime opportunity for the target to hit, or Home Alone 3, where the actor Alex D. Linz looks out through the window and sees a world of crime come around his homely abode, or Leon Prudovsky's film My Neighbor Adolf, it is because they're kind of are. In a way, these all films released after Alfred Hitchcock's feature are spiritual offshoots or not, the idea of making a film set in a single location is as old as cinema itself. For there is nothing as affordable as not having to go and make a multitude of sets. c:1 ↩ Reply
Except for the fact, that Hitchcock did decide to create an array of sets within a giant film studio warehouse. It cannot be said that the film is a cheap peruse. ↩ Reply
For the grandeur of the set, the action maintained is quite simple. It is mostly just looking at what's going on the world around and discussing it with the people near. There are conflicts here and there, romance blossoming, but not too feisty. Only as much as The Code allows. ↩ Reply
The true brilliance of the film is how it is able to present the sexual and violence tension, without triggering The Code. The issue comes when you're watching it from the modern day perspective with all the Martin Scorseses and Destry Spielbergs out the, making actually messed up pictures. The thrill presented is light, tame in comparison with what is present now. ↩ Reply
Even so, it is quite possible to get into the world of that time and enjoy what is presented with. The death is existent in the world our protagonist lives in and he's the only one with the keen eye to notice it. With the tameness comes real excitement when out of nowhere a woman (Grace Kelly) is about to be physically assaulted and her boyfriend is watching or when out of the sudden the camera operator takes 12 shots of espresso and brings so much energy to the long shot that the protagonist falls down out of a multi-story building. ↩ Reply
The movie keeps the viewers on the edge, waiting to see where the next curve in the development is going to take. There are the quick quips, jokes of the time and the cynical outlook on the world, prevalent in the Cold War period of the time. It could be that Hitchcock wanted to say our protagonist is horny for the neighbor girl dressing up, so that's why he swapped small lens out his very long lens (penis). ↩ Reply
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That's a big lens you got there. ↩ Reply
The movie has thrills, it has murder, it speaks of it quite openly, but leaves the images in the minds of the viewers. If there is anything to walk away from all this is that I have not left my room in 4 days and the garbage keeps piling up. I do not even have a casket, preventing me from moving. Now, time came to open up the window and continue starting at my neighbors. ↩ Reply
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Blender Dumbass
c:1 October 16, 2026 making a film set in a single location is as old as cinema itself. For there is nothing as affordable as not having to go and make a multitude of sets.
⤴ ViewFunny, if you think about it, Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet is one of those movies.
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