Analysis Of Alfred Hitchcock s Rear Window And The Magic...

Symbolism is heavily demonstrated in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 Rear Window and Question s 2015 The Magic Circle. Both works have strengthened the idea that movie directors or game developers narrative forms can virtually implant a part of the audience into the works and have a direct impact on the interpretations of them by using symbols. Conversely, Rear Window and The Magic Circle have their own unique narrative techniques in order to call forth the symbols of each work. Even though these two works are from different media and roughly about sixty years apart, is it true that the differences allow one form of media with its narrative style to provide more meaningful and clear symbols than the other? In Rear Window, Hitchcock created an exclusive form of narration that guides the audience by symbolizing the windows as their eyes in which the majority the movie is shown through. As one of the signature scenes in Hitchcock’s movies, the first set of windows that th e audience see are in Jefferies apartment in the opening-credits scene. The majority of the story was given away with regards to the forthcoming storyline, which has also presented an opportunity to set the tone of the film. It signified that the movie has officially begun when the bamboo curtain of Jeff s window is raised and the courtyard is shown. This furthers the idea in which the eyes of the viewers are now has become a part of Jeff s windows. Due to the metaphor, the audience s