Compare And Contrast Disturbia And Rear Window

“Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence,” says Stella from Rear Window. (Rear Window vs Disturbia, 1954 film Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock and the 2007 film Disturbia by D.J. Caruso.) These two films will are addressing how the characters react in these situations due to isolation and the use of semiotic differences that each one expresses. The women in both films gave the men something to look at. For example, in the opening scene of Rear Window, the audience sees Jefferies looking from his window over to Miss Torso who is dancing and stretching as she gets ready for her day. As in the film Disturbia, the audience sees Kale looking through

Thomas J. Doyle his detective friend, point out to him that his actions are not moral. They all tell him that he is violating ones privacy and call him a peeping tom. The way he is so drawn to look around leaves him wanting more and more. The same goes for the film Disturbia. Kale is sentenced to three months of house arrest with a gps tracker stuck to his leg because he punched his Spanish teacher. There is no way for him to leave the house whereas Jefferies who has a cast on his leg from a race injury. Out of boredom Kale seeks peeping on his neighbors as his entertainment as well. Both of these characters get hooked on looking at the everyday lives of their neighborhood that they both discover a murderer. The difference is that Kale has more spying technology such as binoculars and a surveillance camera system that his friend owns whereas Jefferies does not have much of the spying equipment only a pair of binoculars and a camera that he can zoom in with. This is because of the time period in which the films were made. This also makes it easier for them to watch their prey upon the action that is taken. Kale is a loner to the outside world and only communicates with his mother and friends. He drifts away from the outside world and enters his own world of private investigation.

In Disturbia the setting takes places in a suburban area, the houses are isolated, and the character is forced to go back to his house to indulge on his neighbors activities; whereas in Rear Window the character is isolating himself from society. This is shown clearly as we see above the apartment complex where Jefferies lives in New York where the city is thriving. Both of these characters are very consumed by their obsession and become social