Rear Window

I think the common interpretation of the movie deals with voyeriusm, how we escape into fantasy in order to not confront our own problems. A much more interesting reading deals with how Lisa enters his frame of fantasy. Initially Lisa is a disturbance to his fantasy of gazing into the lives of other people , his desire being his fascination with what he sees outside. The moment when he becomes interested in Lisa is precisely when she enters his fantasy and dangerously traverses to the other apartment .  Which I think is demonstrates how being included in a fantasy-scene gives consistency to the subject’s desire. Hence the “male-chauvinist” lesson: man can relate to women only in so far as she enters the frame of his fantasy.