Alfred Hitchcock

Ever since I was little I had always heard old people talking about how Alfred Hitchcock was one of the best directors of all time and that all of his movies are simply amazing. Due to this I was going into the movie Rear Window with rather high expectations. In my mind Hitchcock was great at creating suspense and interest with the capabilities that he had. Obviously his budget wasn't near as high as a lot of the Hollywood directors that we see today but the movies he made were very interesting.

For this blog I want to comment on the second movie that we watched directed by him being Rear Window. I am choosing this one because I really enjoyed it and thought it was a pretty good picture. While the plot is quite simple and the story certainly doesn't move around very much, the sense of "neighborhood" and togetherness that he makes with all the neighbors in the apartments without them even knowing it is very interesting. Hitchcock shows us mainly an entire movie from the point of view of a man looking out his window because of a broken leg and what mysteries he discovers in his neighborhood. The entire murder case that unfolds throughout this movie is almost more of a side story to the love story that becomes of L.B. and Lisa. The attention to all the characters in this small neighborhood make the viewer really feel like he/she is almost a part of it and very interested in knowing what is going to happen next. He also makes some good suspense scenes such as when Lisa is in the house and from LB's perspective we see the killer returning to his apartment with us not knowing how she is going to get out of it. The mixture of suspense and story that Hitchcock puts into this film make it something that is really work watching and while it seems boring at first, once it gets going you start to enjoy it more and more.