Lives of others

Rating: 8/10 (17 January 2011)

Apart from the unforgettable Psycho, and a faintly-remembered Dial M for Murder, I hadn't seen any Hitchcock film. As if on a whim, I thought of scouring the land for all his movies. This began with Rear Window. A man is indisposed with an injury. He does nothing but watch his neighbours lead their everyday lives. He soon reckons he's found something sinister in one of the homes. Rear Window is one of those films which I'd flatly refuse to analyse. It works superbly as a story. What a premise! The only thing that doesn't work for me is the constant distance he keeps from his girlfriend. How can any man say no to Grace Kelly?