Rear window effectiveness!

Rating: Null/10 (17 May 2002)

There has always been this irritating desire to know what your neighbours are doing, even though it is none of your business. Jeff (James Stewart) is not like that. But he is stuck in a wheelchair with a large telescopic camera lens near him, and his one neighbour is acting VERY suspicious. And so this silly, yet brilliantly spellbounding movie, is off.
But that's the problem. It builds up far too long (longer than most Hitchcock movies), but once it gets going you forget about it (untill it's over that is).
But since 99% of this movie takes place in one room, it's rather, if you asked me, a piece of experimental cinema. But the experiment (unlike SOME movies) succeeds so that, once it gots started, you FEEL like your in James Stewarts wheelchair, watching whatever is happening (no spoilers here).

Brilliant, cried I! It's well worth the long build-up. But a lot of people wont like the build up! They prefer loonies who kills you like an urban legend, rather than realism. Shucks.
Very effective movie, Rear Window. Do you yourself a favor, draw your curtains, rent it and watch it! And remember, you are always being watched.