COMM 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: David O. Selznick, Lonelyhearts, Melodrama
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Neighbors as type of cinematic spectacles or lures. Hearing aid: visual art musician: music couple with dog: ordinary everyday. Newlyweds: dark comedy, counterpoint to badly wed thorwalds. Thorwalds: both the familiar and the uncanny crime. The singer who is sonic presence presumable on the same fourth wall that jeff occupies. We are a race of peeping toms , we look at others to avoid looking at ourselves. Jeff avoids commitment and has a distinct image of what he wants, he wants to remain detached from lisa. Lisa enters as if a dream, she is aggressor in the relationship, the active to his passive, she is the perfect kind of woman for a man who likes to look. She knows how to dress to attract the gaze of men. Their inner worlds are different, their fantasy lives are worlds apart. Jeff continually acting curly toward her, she comes back, they are sadist/libertine pairing.
