You got to think like a movie producer...Having Burt Lancaster climb over fences is dangerous, takes away time from the story and most importantly imparts a feeling that the 'swimmer' is criminally breaking into people's backyards. It's a concept film.
I thought you said you were studying film? Hint, The Swimmer is not cinéma vérité.
I thought you said you were studying film? Hint, The Swimmer is not cinéma vérité.
I'm taking it that you believe the answer is like the lack of window screens in movies (all they do is slow down a plot when someone or something needs to go in or out a window), so a fence would be similar.
But I'm still asking if the movie possibly reflected the reality of the time... were fences around pools always mandatory? At points in the 20th century we made leaps & bounds regarding safety (does anyone remember the days when any food stuffs you brought home - like ketchup - didn't have a safety seal that you have to remove?) Child-proof lids for medicine didn't even come out until 1967!
So maybe the laws about fences weren't as mandatory in the 60's. Does anyone know?