Rear Window was a brilliant film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film was great for its time and is also enjoyed today. L.B. Jefferies played by (James Stewart) is a photographer with a broken leg sitting in a wheelchair board people watching out of his apartment rear window. Jefferies can’t go anywhere so his nurse Stella takes care of him during the day. Also, his fiancée Lisa Freemont played by (Grace Kelly) and his friend, detective Thomas Doyle visit Jefferies often. Out of all the windows in the courtyard Jefferies notices the window of Mr. Thorwald. Jefferies sees Thorwald and Mrs. Thorwald arguing a lot. Mrs. Thorwald has a condition and stays in bed all of the time.
Then one evening Jefferies sees Thornwald leave his apartment at 2:30 in the morning with his large salesman briefcase then comes back and leaves again. This grew Jefferies suspicions about the disappearance of Mrs. Thornwald. Jefferies told Lisa Freemont about Thornwald but she and nurse Stella did not believe him until they watched for themselves out of the rear window. All three set out to investigate what was going on and Lisa ventured to Thorwalds apartment and she found herself caught red handed by Thorwald. Lisa signals to Jefferies that she found the wedding ring of Mrs. Thornwald. Thornwald saw the hand signal and looked directly into Jefferies window. Thornwald walks over to Jefferies room opens the door and starts to attack Jefferies not before blinding Thornwald with the flash from his camera, which really makes this movie a Hitchcock by the way. Thornwald tries to throw Jefferies out the rear window, but the Doyle and his police force save the day and get a confession from Thornwald and the case is solved.
This movie is a must see in my opinion because this movie has suspense and a touch of romance and a villain that thinks he can get away with murder. I think this movie will be enjoyed in the future as it was in the past. Rear Window is classic.
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I love your review and I agree this movie is a must see. It does have a lot of those things you mention. The romance between Jeff, and Lisa, the suspense of Mrs. Thorwald suddenly missing, and the villain who is Mr. Thorwald. I thought this movie was brilliant. It kept me wondering what was going to happen next. I also like the recommendation you gave at the end. Great review.
ReplyDeleteA few things I noticed in this review. First of all, for a "review" there was a lot of plot summary and little analysis or interpretation of the movie. Also because of the fact that you were trying to get all/a lot of the plot in the review you were making your sentences choppy like they were overly precise. Since it was a lot of plot it also made your conclusion of it being a classic not able to be established. Hopefully in the future you could read a few plot summaries yourself and see how to make them concise.
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