rear window by Alfred Hitchcookv

Rating: 8/10 (7 February 2018)

Rear Window
By Alfred Hitchcock's
2/6/18
L.B. Jefferies played by James Stewart is depended on his wheelchair after a broken leg. Jefferies is forced to stay in his apartment for several weeks because of his injury. Because of this he gets a deeper meaning to his girlfriend Lisa Carol Fremont who is played by Grace Kelly. Lisa was this perfect woman which every guy dreamed of having but because of Jefferies injury he realizes she has a rebellious side to her. Jefferies nurse (Stella played by Thelma Ritter) who was hired to help him out gets launched into the drama of Jeffries spying on his neighbors.
The story was written by John Michael Hayes and filmed by Alfred Hitchcock. The movie was produced by Paramount Pictures in 1952. The story is based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 story "It had been a murder". In 1995, The film won the Edgar Allen Poe award for best motion picture screenplay. In 1997, the movie was honored by the United States National Film Registry in the library of congress. In 2002, the film won the online Film and Television Association Award.
After Jefferies broke his leg during a photographing a racetrack accident he is forced to stay in his apartment. His apartment overlooks multiple other apartments in the building over. He creeps on multiple people over the course of time. Until one night during a thunderstorm he hears a woman yell "Don't!" then the sound of breaking glass. He witnesses a guy named Thorwalds who is played by Raymond Burr. Thorwalds lives in the apartment directly across from Jeffries with his wife for the previous six month. Jefferies notices the next day Mr. Thorwalds wife is missing and that he is cleaning a knife. Thorwalds later that day locks a trunk and has moving men move the trunk away from the apartment. Jefferies soon become convinced that Mr. Thorwalds killed his wife and, becomes obsessed with finding out the truth.
Jeffries believes that Mr. Thorwalds buried something in the court yard and killed a dog to stop it from digging. Jefferies and his wife Lisa go try and dig it but don't find anything. Lisa than climbs into his apartment. Mr. Thorwalds comes home and catches Lisa; Jefferies calls the cops to save her but in the mix of everything, the police arrest her for breaking into the apartment.
Stella goes to bail out Lisa at the police station. Mr. Thorwalds calls Jeffries to confront him but Jefferies thinks it's detective Doyle who is played by Wendell Corey: says, "the suspect has left the apartment". When Mr. Thorwalds goes speechless, Jefferies quickly realizes that it's not detective Doyle and makes a huge mistake. Mr. Thorwalds comes over to confront him. When he gets there, he grabs Jefferies and throws him out the window. As he falls to the ground the police enter the apartment and arrest Mr. Thorwalds. A few days later, Jefferies goes home to rest peacefully but now with a cast on both his feet. All the neighbors seem to go back to living normal lives and a happy ending is at ease. It is not certain if Jefferies and Lisa ever get married.
Jefferies isn't by definition, someone who goes out of the way to do good nor is he a detective. He is simply someone who likes to snoop around in other people's business. He is driven to be someone who likes to be next to the drama but not actually involved in it. You can see this in multiple occasions in the movie where he delays doing something because he's afraid to get himself involved.