Lisa And Stella example essay topic

Rear Window Journal In Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock uses the story of a cripple free lance photographer, Jeff Jeffries, to explain the twisted sense of society even in the 1950's. Hitchcock uses clever things from the way the apartments are being filmed to the dialogue between Jeffries, Lisa, and Stella to show societies interest in pain, tragedy, and discomfort, and in the end you see how tragedy is what makes everyone happy. From the very beginning of rear window we encountered scenes where Hitchcock shows Stella being sadistic, but we come to realize later that it is not just Stella. Stella is just the only one who speaks out about it.

You must observe all the other characters actions and reactions to truly see. Stella tells Jeffries that "we have become a race of peeping toms" and that "the only thing that can come out of peeping toms is trouble". In no way do those comments make Jefferies feel like what his is doing is wrong. By his reactions to Stella's comments you actually feel like they encourage him to continue watching his neighbors from his window. He reinforces the idea that he lives in a corrupted society when he replies to her comments that "right now, I would welcome trouble". Jefferies is the source of the corrupted society and as the movie goes on you begin to see him corrupting the other characters, especially Stella and Lisa.

When Stella is talking to Jeffries about Lisa and she describes Lisa as a great girl, you see Jeffries have a reaction that is somewhat surprising. He is turned off by the idea that she is so innocent and pure and from that insists that he is not the right person for her and that they are not meant to be married. As the story goes on and she begins to believe Jeffries you sense that he is becoming more attracted to her. The first big change is when she comes over and creates a believable story for him.

In the previous scene when they were kissing he wasn't focused at all, but after she tells him the twisted story about the possible death of the neighbors he becomes intrigued by her and the kissing then becomes passionate. The death of the neighbor's wife is what really allows you to see how the society is corrupted. The biggest reactions of the neighbors in the movie come where there is death. The first when the dog dies, and then when Jeffries is hanging from the window about to fall to his death. The only truly happy couple, made obvious by Hitchcock during the film, is the couple that death comes to, in the case of their dog. Everyone else in the film seems miserable and isolated only brought together by death.

The wife of the couple says it when she makes a comment announcing how miserable of neighbors they are. Hitchcock uses misery, tragedy, and death to show the emotions of his characters. At no point is this more obvious than the end of the movie. Hitchcock spends the entire movie building up to this point and in the end he makes it extremely clear how tragedy has changed the relationship of everyone. After the nagging husbands murder of his wife has been confessed you see a change in every character.

Jefferies is now happy and able to sleep comfortably with Lisa at his side, the newlyweds went from being happy to fighting, and miss torso's husband came home and she was now happy, the drunk lonesome singer and miss lonely heart got together and are now happy, and the lady downstairs is back to sunbathing. Everyone's emotions changed as a result of the tragedy that occurred the night before, and Hitchcock makes a point to show every character and point that out.