Narrative Analysis: Rear Window

The narrative analysis that I will be analyzing is the Three Act Structure for the 1954 Rear Window. In this analysis, it will describe a break down of how this film is structured and what all theses structures mean in application to the audiences understanding. In order to understand what the Three-Act Structure this film provided, we will analyze the film as well as use reference to Module 1 of the Three Act Structure terminology.

At the beginning of the film the first image, the audience is introduced with the rolling of window blinds going up, and then shows a scene of a group of people that are located in an urban New York apartment building. From the view of the film we are viewing it from the protagonist apartment window, in which he oversees the whole apartment courtyard. With analyzing the beginning of the film, I already can identify with the theme as obsession and curiosity of other human begins.
Then we become introduced to our protagonist, and his condition …show more content…
With the garden always drawing the attention of the dog, it also made me very attentive. As this dog is always being around the garden trying to dig. This triggered me to think of the possibility that Thornwald buried his wife there. Sounds crazy, but from my perspective I believed that he buried his wife. With the mindset of that, I think that Jeff assumes that Thornwald is hiding something that he doesn’t want anyone to find out. Already, in this film we have a backstory in which the history of Thornwald to Jeff motivates him to wonder what is Thornwald guilty of, due to past experience Thronwald seems like a mean man that doesn’t want to be bothered, especially with the scene of the dog on his property. However, with the curiosity of the dog, and Jeff, as well as the audience helps ease us into second act, which is to figure out what is in the bed of flowers, that Thornwald wants this dog to leave