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I really enjoyed this film. I had only seen “The Birds” and I really enjoyed the similarities in the Hitchcock films. In both of the films, the main female character starts out almost perfect in their appearance and in their demeanor. By the end of the films, the beautiful women have become more normal (less perfect) in their appearance and in their mannerisms.I like that the relationship between Jeffries and Lisa is focused on while we are watching the relationships of the other apartment dwellers. We are watching people but at the same time, we are watching Lisa become less perfect in her attire and less stand-offish in her mannerisms. At the beginning of the film, she is wearing a designer dress and is almost floating around the apartment. By the end of the film, she is wearing jeans and is lying down on the bed. Jeffries looks at Lisa as a perfect woman and he can’t marry someone who is so perfect. As the film progresses, we see that Lisa is getting more involved in what is happening to the neighbors and she is letting us see into her character. We get the sense that she is looking for something just like Jeffries. They are both starting to see the other in a new way. We see Lisa getting involved in the neighbors’ lives and not just being in the background like an accessory. In the beginning of the film, Jeffries pictures Lisa’s home life like Miss Torso’s. Miss Torso has lots of male callers and Jeffries thinks that Lisa, since she is also beautiful, must have the same thing going on in her life away from him. Lisa tells him that he is incorrect in his thinking this way because he doesn’t come to her home. At the end of the film, we see that Miss Torso was waiting for her boyfriend who is in the military. Hitchcock allows us to follow what is happening in Jeffries and Lisa’s lives by making the similarities to the neighbors’ lives very obvious. We see what is happening to the neighbors and then we see the reaction shots that are focused on Jeffries and Lisa. We see that they are becoming closer because they are involved in finding out what has happened to Mrs. Thorwald. When the dog’s owner is screaming, all of the neighbors stop and pay attention to what she is saying. She is screaming that no one ever pays attention to what is going on all around them but Jeffries has been paying attention because he “had” to. He was forced to watch because of his injury. He couldn’t do much else to pass them time away.