'Voyeurism and It's Consquences' By Alfred Hitchcock

Rating: 8/10 (30 January 2020)

Rear Window may not be my favorite Hitchcock film, but it's still a timely classic thriller with a lot of influential material that has been passed down for years and years, there's an obvious reason why he's hailed as the master of suspense, he knows his style and he owns it proudly, wearing it right on his sleeve. I would say this is one of the best films for a newcomer of Hitchcock, and it has pretty much everything that makes a Hitchcock film just that, it has beautiful style and revealing cinematography, making the camera its own character, fully fleshed out characters that are built slowly from the beginning, and of course plenty of intensity and suspense revolving around this brutal murder mystery. It's sharp script helps elevate some of the more dated, for the times sort of material, which there's a decent amount here. And while the ending didn't satisfy me, it still has plenty of closure and a pretty cool final confrontation between the killer and Jeff, all led by fine performances which makes Rear Window a treat to watch every time.