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Rear Window (1954)

Nominated for the Academy Award for sound recording, color cinematography, screenplay, and director.

Won the American Film Institute's top one hundred movies of all time: number forty two.

This film is so multileveled and layered, that it is impossible to pick up everything it has to say on just one viewing. It's the story of a man who has been injured and is confined to his apartment for a few weeks to heal.  He has never really spent a great deal of time at home and soon, after just a few hours of boredom, starts to spy on his neighbors through his rear window.

The people on the other side of the binocular lenses start to become obsessions for him; he makes up stories about them and he gives them fake names. Things start to heat up when he suspects a man of murdering his wife.  Hitchcock enhances the claustrophobic feel of the piece by filming almost the entire movie in one small apartment.

The film is an interesting statement on how voyeuristic the world, even in 1954, has become. There is also a brilliant theme shown here regarding filmmaking. The lead actor gets in his chair, looks through a lens at people doing what they do, and then tells the stories to others. Problems only occur when he tries to get involved.

(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock)

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