Scopophilia In Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window

In what follows, I will analyze Hitchcock's film Rear Window. It is my thesis that the film clearly shows that scopophilia leads to living a different kind of life. When being intrigued by someone else’s life, it is pretty easy to want to know answers. To defend this thesis, the essay will show specific scenes from the film to demonstrate how easy it is to be interested in someone else’s life.

In the beginning, we figure out Jeff had broken his leg and is casted all the way up to his waist, and is having to stay in his apartment for several weeks to recover. He passes his time by looking outside his window and observing his neighbours and how they live their daily lives. In the beginning, he was observing in a way that was not odd in any way, just observing several different people. He would update his nurse Stella who would come see him everyday on what is going on in his neighbourhood. His fiancée Lisa is his other visitor that visits Jeff everyday. She is an amazing fiancée who takes good care of him while he is recovering. He started to share some things he had seen to her and she did not think much of it. After an argument they had over their future together, she had left his apartment for the rest of the night and next …show more content…
I believe that we are trapped by what the visual presents to us by being caught up in the moment what we are looking at, without much explanation, we quickly come to our own conclusion. Everything we look at, and choose to continue looking at, we start to think in our minds “What is that? What are they doing? Why are they doing it? Why are they doing this now?” and the questions we ask ourselves can go on. Once we find ourselves caught up in watching, we either come to a conclusion, or wait until we do. I believe that because that’s how our minds work, we want an answer to everything, no matter how we get the