Rear Window Sparknotes

The movie ‘Rear Window’ was released on September 1, 1954, the movie was directed by the one and only Alfred Hitchcock, and the movies plot is that a photographer named Jeff, who is stuck on a wheelchair in his apartment to recover from a broken leg, and the movie gets the name “Rear Window” from the fact that his back window looks out into other apartments from people who live in the area. He observes many people from the area, but the most important is a jewelry salesman and his wife. One night, Jeff hears a woman scream "Don't!" and then the sound of breaking glass, then he falls asleep to later realize that Thorwald makes continuous late night trips carrying his suitcase. Jeff soon notices that the wife is gone and then sees Thorwald cleaning knives, so Jeff assume right after that the wife has been murdered causing him to continue to spy on Thorwald. Soon certain events occur to Thorwald noticing Jeff looking at him through a camera lens and Thorwald …show more content…
Jeff told Stewart to walk into Thorwald’s apartment and search it to find enough evidence since there is a “knee deep of evidence” in the room to arrest Thorwald for murder, but officer Stewart told Jeff “I’d like to remind you of the constitution, and the phrase, “Search warrant issued by a judge who knows his Bill of Rights verbatim”, he must for evidence.” This scene is tied to the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights, which states the right of the people to be safe about their houses or personal belongings, against unreasonable searches and seizures, which no warrants shall be issued, until there is a probable cause on a particular place that is described to be searched. Once they caught Thorwald and he admitted to such crimes, the police obtained enough evidence through probable cause which gave them the right to enter Thorwald’s apartment and search for evidence against