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Mise-en-scene in Hitchcock’s The Lodger Alfred Hitchcock’s mise-en-scene in The Lodger serves to enhance the film’s narrative in many cases. The mise-en-scene is particularly complementary to the narrative story in its role in making the association between the lodger and the Avenger, and in the scene in which the lodger is caught by his handcuffs on the metal fence as he tries to escape. In this scene, the vertical lines of the fence, pressed against the lodger’s face, provide a framing device that mimics the bars of a jail. This emphasizes the irony of the situation in which the man who wishes to bring the Avenger to justice is instead persecuted for the Avenger’s crimes. This innocent man is visually jailed before the viewer’s eyes. The handcuffs that cause the situation are themselves visually important to the story in the way that they connect the characters of Daisy, the detective, and the lodger. The detective introduced the handcuffs as he tells Daisy’s father that once he has put the cuffs on the Avenger, he should be able to put a wedding ring on Daisy. The detective even put them on her wrists as she resisted. The handcuffs were shown as a symbol of her unwilling attachment to him. Now,