week 1

The film “The lodger” of Hitchcock is full of suspense and the plot is very much intense.  I could not help but notice the triangle shown in the beginning of the film and kept coming out throughout the film, first the avenger’s name was written next to the triangle which one of the detectives wrote on a piece of paper (time stamp: 01:36), then when Daisy came along later in the film, the triangle showed up again with Daisy’s name next to it. This triangle somehow connects the avenger with Daisy in a way, so we may infer that the avenger’s next target would be Daisy seems fairly reasonable, in addition to the lodger had became part of Daisy’s life after the Avenger had attacked a few blonde girls, Hitchcock used some cinematography techniques to make the audiences think that the lodger is the Avenger on the loose, techniques such as the close up shots of the lodger’s facial expressions like he has something to hide and he looks very suspicious most of the film. Deep focus on the description of the Avenger, like “Tall he was – and his face all wrapped up” (time stamp: 02:10) it looks like a specific description of the avenger published on a local newspaper, but it deep focused on one sentence which is the quality that the lodger also possess. All the evidences that are pointed out had built up to lead  the audiences believe the lodger is indeed the avenger everybody is looking for.