Implausibility

Rating: 5/10 (14 May 2020)

So I just watched this for the first time in years, and as I often tend to nitpick things, I have a few beefs with the protagonist's shortsightedness. First, who would spy on their neighbors through large uncovered windows with the lights on, allowing the person being watched to see you? You'd think he would try to be a little more covert, as any rational person would, especially after he suspected a murder. Then after he's discovered, he doesn't anticipate that the killer would come after him next? The killer expectedly pays him a visit, and instead of the snooper grabbing a blunt object and concealing it behind his back, he foolhardily decides to blind the guy with his camera's flash. It's unlikely that an attacker would stop and go, letting him reload film each time. Imagine it were bullets being loaded. Would you wait for someone to shoot you twice? Any normal killer would've went straight at him. Moreover, why didn't the photog just take pictures of what he saw? He's already holding a camera. I guess he got so caught up in all of it and wasn't using his head. Oh well, I guess this is still considreed classic cinema.