When do our rights become secondary. Sexuality is just on the borderline of being openly discussed. Times are changing. With knowledge comes the knowledges of things we'd rather not know. This is, again, a film right on the threshold of a changing world.
Time here is in gentle flux.
With film, television and the arts, America has become voyeur. The days of neighbors with shades up, windows open, doors unlocked, sleeping on the fire escape were becoming much more of a thing of the past by 1954. It sees the future. Like Stewart, we are crippled in our confinements, his wheelchair is our recliner. We are slipping ever increasingly into the darkness, we have become viewers of life as well.