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Alfred Hitchcock Rear window

Rear window is great film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is filmed in America in 1954. This film is based on short story "It Had to Be Murder" by Cornell Woolrich. Many critics consider this film like one of the best Hitchcock's films. The film was ranked #42 on AFI's 100 Years100 Movies list and received four Academy Award nominations. Rear Window is a voyeuristic film. The majority of the film the audience looks through a characters eyes into a window which is also a cinema screen. Main character is Jeff Jeffries who is professional photographer, and after breaking his leg during a dangerous assignment, he is forced to stay at home in his apartment. His window offers a view onto the courtyard and several other apartments. View from that window allows spectators to follow the lives of several people. The residents he can see include a dancer, a lonely woman with a nickname "Miss Lonelyheart", a songwriter, several married couples, and Lars Thorwald, a wholesale jewelry salesman with a bedridden wife. While watching how Jeffries spends his long days and nights watching shamelessly his neighbors, spectator starts to share his obsession. Jeff Jeffries never leaves his apartment and has only two regular visitors. One of them is his visiting nurse Stella and she is person who predicts trouble, and the other is his fiancee, Lisa Fremont. She is elegant model and dress designer. She wants his attention for herself but he rather looks at the lives of others than lives his own life. The viewer can see that Jeff has a fear of bonding, and that he is in one way in love with his job, with the occupation of photography. The main object of his observation is Thorvald, a man with a wife who spends all her days in bed and makes life miserable for him. One day, Jeffries no longer sees the wife, and when he puts together several clues, he begins to suspect that a murder has taken place. This event steers the imagination of Jeffries, and also the imagination of viewers who are in suspense until the end of the film. Real Window is full of suspense. While watching the film spectator has a feeling like he is one of the characters, because he feels drawn into voyeurism. That feeling is created, because of the way in which the film is shot. Spectator is also trapped in Jeffriess apartment and limited on his point of view. In some parts of the film, screen looks as the viewer sees through the binoculars that directly follows a situation. Feeling of suspense is present, because spectator can conclude which is the next step of some character, but he is not sure when some things will happen. Most of the time, because of that feeling of suspense, viewer has a wish to participate, to warn characters of upcoming danger. In the Real Window Hitchcock invests in suspense all through the film. With this feeling of delay, he captures the attention of spectator and he gives a sense of greater value to the final part of the film when the final payoff arrives.