A great classic of mystery crime movies

Rating: 7/10 (17 August 2014)

I love how the movie scaled up the simple initial concept of peeking at one's neighbors into a great detective movie. The detective movie aura presented isn't one with rich and intriguing details, rather it's one with so many parts built of hunches and intuition, yet it proves to be a classic after all. I like how the movie played with the mood, downplaying and emphasizing back and forth both the mood and the pace. After watching North by Northwest, Psycho, and Rear Window, in that order, I now have a greater regard toward how Alfred Hitchcock handles his movies' concepts, plots, and the general direction. James Stewart performed better in other movies, in my opinion. But I like how Grace Kelly and Thelma Ritter acted out. A bit overacted at the dialog accent, as is the common doing in movie of that age, but the overall facial expressions and body language suits the scenes quite perfectly.