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Rear Window (1954)
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Like the Greenwich Village courtyard view from its titular portal, Alfred Hitchcock's classic Rear Window is both confined and multileveled: both its story and visual perspective are dictated by its protagonist's imprisonment in his apartment, convalescing in a wheelchair, from which both he and the audience observe the lives of his neighbors. Cheerful voyeurism, as well as the behavior glimpsed among the various tenants, affords a droll comic atmosphere that gradually darkens when he sees clues to what may be a murder. Photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (James Stewart) is, in fact, a voyeur by trade, a professional photographer...
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Rear Window Movie Review by Jarrod  (5/21/2008) |
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'Rear Window' is an exercise in perfectly crafted suspense. It crosses the line from voyeurism into fetishistic fascination, as LB Jeffries (James Stewart) observes his neighbors, giving them each a colorful nickname, and eventually suspecting one of them of murdering his wife. This is Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), a...
(complete Rear Window review by Jarrod)
| Rear Window Movie Review by Terrence (5/12/2007) |
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Alfred Hitchcocks "Rear Window" is another example of sparse film making and superior acting combing to create a deeply thought provoking and voyeuristic film.
The master of suspense this time around is working with very few sets and a simple premise. Jimmy Stewart plays L.B. Jefferies (or Jeff) a photo journalists whose...
(complete Rear Window review by Terrence)
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