Views on Marriage and Voyeurism

Robert Smith
Views on Marriage and Voyeurism
This critical analysis was done on the movie Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and released in 1954. In Rear Window each storyline of characters is almost a movie with in itself in which Alfred Hitchcock uses these storylines to show the audience two major themes. The themes are the characters’ views on marriage and the parallelism between them and the act of voyeurism of L.B. Jefferies.
In the beginning of Rear Window, we see Jefferies’ views on marriage. While Jefferies is on the phone with his boss and watching the Thorwalds, we see and hear Jefferies first opinions on marriage. What we see is Jefferies watching the Thorwalds having a little argument and Jefferies telling his boss at the same time that he needs to get out of his apartment before he gets married to a nagging wife. Another example of Jeff’s opinions on marriage is when the insurance nurse Stella comes to see Jefferies and they have a discussion on his ...