The classic thriller, suspense film Rear Window directed by Alfred Hitchcock is one of his greatest masterpieces. In a small Greenwich Village apartment, a newspaper photographer with a casted leg takes frequent views of the surrounding Lower East Side apartment buildings, lower courtyard and garden. With a suspicion about one of his neighbors, Jeff believes that one neighbor inparticular is a murder, then decides to solve the mystery himself. With a combination of thriller, action and mystery, Rear Window provides its audience with a compressed and stifled feeling that is accomplished through a wide-open window that lets in a view of a small collection of diversions, Jeff’s surrounding neighbors. Each diversion is caught in an immobility,
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B. Jeffries, Jimmy Stewart. Nearly all of the point-of-view shots throughout the film can be attributed to Jeff. Being held up in a wheelchair with a broken leg and he spends most of his time being a physical surveillance camera on his neighbors in his apartment complex. Throughout all of the point-of-view sequences, Hitchcock used the same formula every time. There aren’t many extreme flaws in the film Rear Window, but there are a few minor ones. One of the flaws is towards the end of the film when Jeff uses his camera’s flashbulb to defend himself. Jeff uses his flashbulb repeatedly to temporarily blind Thorvald in the closing scene. The number of flashbulbs in the cardboard box drops by two between cuts as Jeff wheels himself back towards the open panel window to create more distance between him and Thorvald.
With a film that is overflowing with suspense, romance and comedy, Rear Window looks like it was the easiest, most effortless movie to be made. This great masterpiece beautifully captures not only the point-of-view camera shots, but a visually, understandable relationship through editing, staging and camera movement. Definitely a must-see
B. Jeffries, Jimmy Stewart. Nearly all of the point-of-view shots throughout the film can be attributed to Jeff. Being held up in a wheelchair with a broken leg and he spends most of his time being a physical surveillance camera on his neighbors in his apartment complex. Throughout all of the point-of-view sequences, Hitchcock used the same formula every time. There aren’t many extreme flaws in the film Rear Window, but there are a few minor ones. One of the flaws is towards the end of the film when Jeff uses his camera’s flashbulb to defend himself. Jeff uses his flashbulb repeatedly to temporarily blind Thorvald in the closing scene. The number of flashbulbs in the cardboard box drops by two between cuts as Jeff wheels himself back towards the open panel window to create more distance between him and Thorvald.
With a film that is overflowing with suspense, romance and comedy, Rear Window looks like it was the easiest, most effortless movie to be made. This great masterpiece beautifully captures not only the point-of-view camera shots, but a visually, understandable relationship through editing, staging and camera movement. Definitely a must-see