Rear Window Essay

Cameron Schille
American Studies
10/3/07

Rear Window Essay

Alfred Hitchcock was a great film writer. He made lots of great films in his days and one of his best films was Rear window. Hitchcock liked to set challenges for himself in his films and the challenge in this film was too tell a good story without the camera ever leaving Jeff’s apartment.
One way Alfred Hitchcock made this film interesting was he always had people coming in and out of Jeff’s apartment. They would have real life conversations that were very interesting and grabbed the audiences attention. When the people came into his apartment he would tell them about his day and everything he saw. There was also a relationship with one of the characters and Jeff had love scenes with her which caught peoples attention.
Another way this film was interesting was because Jeff and his friends were always looking out the window and spying on people. there were always really interesting things going on outside the apartment in other peoples windows, and the characters were always talking to each other about these things to tell the audience what was going on and the actors opinion on it.
Another thing that made this film interesting was that there was a problem that the people in Jeff’s apartment were trying to figure out and solve. The problem was that there were lots of signs that one of Jeff’s neighbors might have murdered their wife. There were things like long distant phone calls and trips out late at night. One of the biggest signs were he had a box and rope that made it look like he was putting his dead wife in there.

These are all good reasons why this film was a good one. I would recommend this film to anyone who hasn’t seen a good movie in a while or just likes good movies because it is very interesting.