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Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Pleasure And Dangers Of Looking

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In Sidney Gottlieb’s article on “Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window: The Pleasure and Dangers of Looking”, they thoroughly explain how Hitchcocks direction of the movie such as filming angles lures the audience in being about the same position as the characters, by looking at the movie of people looking at people looking. They go into detail how looking can be both good and bad, with a bit of focus on the bad towards the end which correlates to the unwrapping of the crime in the movie and the onlocker as well as the audience being caught looking. They relate this danger to the abyss such as when you look into the abyss, the abyss is looking into you as well. Which I believe is as well as when you look into the abyss anything can happen because you cant see who or what can be looking back at you, therefore their can always be something looking at you. Like the curiosity or fear of the unknown, which …show more content…

I agree with the author on many points because on looking unto someone's life can cause both good effects and bad effects for you, the bad effects because one does not truly know how the person being looked upon will react. I wonder, which I didn't recall the author mentioning as much, but when would the line be crossed when looking is affecting the looker in a bad or good way. I think it would be difficult or nearly impossible to tell because by the time one would tell the abyss is already looking back at you and/or you are already in the abyss. In this article the author speaks on how the filming of each window shows the focus on a certain persons part of their life, but because of this you miss other peoples windows into their lives. They speaks about the ending Jeffries was distracted on Ms Lonely Hearts so Lisa was forgotten, then the film was shoot to show both Lisa’s and Ms. Lonely Hearts perspectives. The text says “The jolt we get from

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