Rear Window

Rear Window

Alfred Hithcock is a brilliant director, in his movie Rear Window he shows an amazing battle of man angainst

himself. He   shows this by butting Jeff in a wheel chair due to his broken foot, he also struggles with his lust for

mischief and the sense of wrong, and finally Jeff battles with his own sense of reason.

The wheel chair has the audiance and jeff battleing with the fact that threy are incompasitated to do anything

about the fact that Thorwald has killed his wife, this leaves us with the feeling of helplessness. The wheel chair is a

major symbol in the movie it forces us to think and shos how Hitchcock can show distress and create tnsion with out

saying one word to the audiance. Jeff battles with the wheel chair alot when he hide from sight the telephoto lens

displays his incompasity of walking and the final sequence at the end of the movie where jeff is force to battle off

Thorwalds attack with a mere camera flash and is still thrown out of a window.

The beggining of the movie showed jeff in a wheelchair incompasitated from the world, as the movie moves on

it shows a side of jeff we did not see Lisa Jeffs girl friend assists jeff in his endevor to find out if Thorwald has really

killed his wife or if the are just overreacting. When lisa shows that she will help Jeff by investigating the flower bed

jeff almost seems turned on by this it show how jeff is battling urge and reason. At the beggining of the movie Jeff

resents Lisa telling himself that he is jsut not right for her and that he must leave her and even comes to the

realisation that he will leave her but then when the ellegid murder does happen and Lisa takes interest in it Jeff

changes this realization into a positive one.

Jeffs reason is completely one sided even though Thorwald did kill his wife he refuses to even listen to any

contradictory evidence. Even if Jeff did not believe the evidence but he almost resented the people...