Rear Window And Daisies Comparison

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Films are able to create expression differently depending on countless factors. Two large factors that differentiate how Sedminkrásky (Daisies) and Rear Window present each respective storylines are the style of the movies and who directed them. Considering the specifics of both Rear Window and Daisies, a comparison of the two can then be interpreted to gain a greater understanding of how the style and direction can create almost opposite outcomes in a film.

Rear Window Overview

Rear Window is a 1954 American thriller directed by Alfread Hitchcock. The film takes place entirely in L.B. Jefferies (played by James Stewart) apartment looking out his window at his neighbors. Jefferies is confined to his apartment throughout the film due to an …show more content…

Looking into the windows in tern allows him to look into their personal lives. Jefferies girlfriend and nurse are also involved in the film within the apartment from his view. One night, Jefferies hears a woman screaming from one of the apartments. He sees his neighbor, Lars Thorwald, who is a traveling salesman, continually leaving and coming back to his apartment carrying his suitcase. The next morning Thorwalds wife is no where to be found while he is cleaning a saw and knife and later ties up a large trunk and has it taken away. All signs point to Thorwald killing his wife according to Jefferies. Later on, a woman’s dog is found dead in the courtyard and causes commotion, while all the other neighbors are looking with concern, Thorwald doesn’t even seem interested. Jefferies girlfriend, Lisa, then climbs into Thorwalds …show more content…

Scopophilia essentially becomes the main plot idea of this film with Jefferies starting off looking at his neighbors out of curiosity and becomes pleased with it as the film goes on. Voyeurisitc themes can also be seen because the neighbors do not know he is looking at them, even at the end of the film, when Thorwald sees Jefferies looking at Lisa and insists that the lights be turned off so that he cannot see him watching from afar. Lisa can also represent Muvley’s idea that women in film are used for imagery since Jefferies looks at her through the lens, being forced to focus on only parts of her in view. Jefferies appears to get pleasure from looking at Lisa in this way. He is in control of what parts of being shown through the scope. Mulvey mentions Rear Window in her essay in comparison with these ideas by stating that “the look is central to the plot, oscillating between voyeurism and fetishistic fascination.” Another point Mulvey compares to Hitchcock, especially Rear Window, is that the view is in control by the male protagonist. Jefferies is always the spectator in the film, rather it be in his career as a photojournalist, or watching his neighbors through his window, yet he is still the hero by calling the police when Lisa is in

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