Rear Window Review

Rear Window is one the classic examples of the contribution Alfred Hitchcock made towards the suspense genre in film. The plot of the movie is, for the large part, associated with a murder mystery unraveled by a wheelchair bound character called L.B Jefferies. Other important characters of the film include Jeffries’ love interest Lisa Fremont, Stella the nurse, detective Doyle and Lars Thorwald, the murderer.

L.B Jefferies is portrayed as a wheelchair bound photographer who does not have much to do for five weeks because of his broken leg. Therefore, he spends his time looking out of his of his apartment window and snoops at his neighbors. However, Jefferies is particularly interested in one of his neighbors, Thorwald, whose sick to bed wife suddenly disappears. Thorwald does bizarre things such as disappearing in the middle of the night with his sample case and cleaning knives and a saw in his kitchen. It is because of these unusual acts Jefferies believes that Thorwald might have killed his wife, whom he used to argue with everyday. His beautiful lover, Lisa Fremont, his nurse Stella and his friend detective Doyle helped L.B Jefferies to solve Mrs.Thorwald’s suspected murder mystery.

The film was released in 1954 and so its resolution was not as good as that of modern films. The resolution was not as clear and in fact it was most noticeable in darker scenes where the picture seemed somewhat blurred. One can truly appreciate the long way technology has come in terms of film resolution over the past five decades after watching Rear Window.

The director has also depicted certain ideologies, mostly pertaining to women and love, throughout the film. The director got across the message that sophisticated women cannot be married through L.B Jeffries, who had a discussion with his nurse Stella on his reasons of not getting married to Lisa Fremont. Jefferies admired Lisa but did not wanted to marry her because she was just ‘too perfect’ and supposedly was too...