Rear Window Review

 Last week, my group and I decided to see  rear window, a really famous movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock so many years ago. Well, I have to say that actually I saw it before, when I was a little girl I remember seeing for the first time this murderer story on TV with my parents. Comparing every time I have watched the film, I finally consider that it is always going to be something I won't be able to catch, the feeling is similar if you observate a picture of the Baroque artist, Bosch. You could think you have seen every element of the composition perfectly and you´re surprised when you realized not.

From my point of view, there's one essential of Hitchcock's films. Each of them owns their personalities and are impossible to compare or confuse with other ones.

Rear window is and was a hit, to put in context. We are told in the movie the story of L.B ¨jeff¨(with stewart as the main character), a famous photographer who has an accident on his job. This is the reason why we find him on a wheelchair in the first scene. Caused by tedium, he started spying on all their neighbours windows, that show us differents kinds of lifestyles and a large amount of the steps on human relationship. We meet a ballerina, a recent marriage, an alcoholic musician, an sculpture and such a lot of characters. But the man who caught the protagonist's attention is Lars Thorwald. Jeff start is journal doing the same as always since his leg was broken, and that morning, something wasn’t normal. The day before, he saw Throwald marriage arguing for something(also we can see the woman being sick on a bed)and then,she didn’t appear more on her window, without a clue of what happened or why she disappeared. In fact, he begins worrying about it when days after the situation doesn't seem to change. From this point, jeff, with lisa(grace kelly) next to him to balance his inability to move in the research.

I'm not going to reveal more information, if you want to know what happened. Trorwall, you'll have to see with your own eyes.

In my opinion, this thriller, nowadays is considered a classic and to understand all the shades it hides behind, I´d recommend to watch it once a few years and be aware of how the perception of what we had seen can change with no reason why at first.

It is true and I´ve to recognise that when I was younger, I didn’t get a quarter of it real essence, however, even if thiller is one of my favorite genres, I should admit that although the way rear window develop the story is really original, sometimes the rhythm of the film(for me at least) can be a bit slow.

Well, after all, I hope to have encouraged you to watch and enjoy it with a bowl full  of copcorns and a good friend next to you.