Rear Window

H English 12

Period 1

Final Exam ECR

Giancarlo Bellido

Rear Window is a movie about a photographer on a wheelchair who spies on his neighbors from his apartment window. The whole movie is told from the perspective of the photographer’s apartment. Rear Window shows us how the lives of regular people can be sometimes unexpected.

Rear Window goes through some of the common American stereotypes: The Musician, the popular dancer, the depressed person, a married couple, etc. They all have problems, and secrets, and the movie develops every of them. One of the techniques that Hitchcock used the most was foreshadowing, because just by using images and sounds he let the audience know what could happen.

Hitchcock shows us life on each shot. To show how dynamic it is, scenes change from one character to the other while the main conflict, the murder, is being observed. The camera moves from apartment to apartment imitating human perception, also at the moment when the killer gets into the photographer’s apartment, he uses his camera flash to momentarily blind the killer, and you can see in the screen how his eyes slowly recover