{"id":426,"date":"2013-10-14T12:13:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T16:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/?p=426"},"modified":"2015-08-25T15:06:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T19:06:28","slug":"voyeur-on-both-sides-of-the-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/2013\/10\/14\/voyeur-on-both-sides-of-the-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Voyeur on both sides of the lens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Magazine photographer Jeffery broke his leg by accident. His daily life is taken care of by his beautiful girlfriend Lisa. Only able to sitting on the wheelchair, Jeffery\u2019s biggest interest is to observe what his neighbors are doing through the lens. \u00a0Each window contains its own story. But something unusual is happening in the apartment at the opposite of his rear window. He was suspicious that one of his neighbors killed his wife. At that time, he has already sunken into this quirk fondness. Actually, we audience are also as eager as Jeffery to find out what is going on. Everyone shares a trait that being born to be a voyeur because of the emptiness inside his or her heart. That\u2019s what helps Hitchcock succeed in this movie \u2013 it is about voyeurism on both sides of the lens.<\/p>\n

With only a few number of given camera angles, Hitchcock really made such thrilling \u00a0suspension out of\u00a0 a small space. The main plot line may be the murder, but there are still lots of subplots are going on at the same time \u2013 each window indicates a different storyline just as our real life.<\/p>\n

\"\"Hitchcock successfully captures our inner desire to peer what others are doing. \u00a0The Rear Window also reminds me of a film called Dans La Maison I watched earlier this year. It is about a writing teacher who asks his student Claude to observe and record what he saw about one of his classmates. Claude\u2019s description is so fascinating and realistic that the teacher can\u2019t help but keeping reading his assignment just like peering Claude\u2019s classmate in person. What Claude writes offers the teacher another rear window to learn everything that\u2019s going on. A voyeur may take different form to spy on others. But what is the main motivation for voyeurs?<\/p>\n

Just like we are never tired of browsing our friends\u2019 even strangers\u2019 homepage on various kinds of social network, watching other people\u2019s lives seems to be usual(like watching a TV show and we always want to know what next episode tells). Bound to bed due to his broken leg, Jeffery chooses to look through the window to kill the time. Yes at first it may be out of curiosity for him to do so. Yet as things develop, he find it more interesting to observe others\u2019 lives than living his own one. Lisa and the other nurse whose name I forget persuaded Jeffery to do something else more than once and they show little interest in peering because they have their own meaningful life. In contrast, the emptiness inside Jeffery\u2019s heart can only be filled by his craving to continue voyeur.<\/p>\n

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(need to be revised :\/)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Magazine photographer Jeffery broke his leg by accident. His daily life is taken care of by his beautiful girlfriend Lisa. Only able to sitting on the wheelchair, Jeffery\u2019s biggest interest is to observe what his neighbors are doing through the lens. \u00a0Each window contains its own story. But something unusual is happening in the apartment … Continue reading Voyeur on both sides of the lens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1774,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109664,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2014","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1774"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}