Rear Window

In the Movie Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock, a man named L.B. Jefferies is stranded in his apartment. Jefferies has a broken leg and is in a wheelchair unable to leave. In Rear Window, the camera does not leave Jefferies apartment. Three ways Alfred Hitchcock made this movie interesting were how he angled and zoomed the camera, the different stories through different windows, and the different characters that visited Jefferies. If Alfred Hitchcock had not done these things, this movie would have been very boring.
Alfred Hitchcock did a very good job of angling the camera, and zooming in and out at the right times in the movie. When he would zoom the camera in, it enabled you to see more details, which you wouldn’t be able to, if it had been at its normal distance. I also thought it was cool how he put a black circle around the picture when Jefferies was looking through the binoculars. This gave me the feeling I was actually looking through binoculars, spying on people through their windows.
Another thing that made the movie more interesting was the fact that instead of just focusing on one window, Hitchcock moved around, viewing other neighbors’ windows. Instead of just having the story of the murder, you also see the story of the piano player, Ms. Lonelyheart, the dancer, and other people. This made the movie more interesting and fun to watch. These characters added a little extra storyline to the movie.
Other characters that added some extra interest to the movie were the people that visited Jefferies in his apartment. Without Lisa, Detective Doyle, and Stella, this movie would have been very boring. Since these people didn’t have a broken leg, they could leave the apartment. This gave them the ability to do things that kept you hooked like digging up the garden, and exploring Thorwald’s apartment. Because these people could do these things and bring in information from outside the apartment it made the movie more interesting and kept you hooked.
In conclusion I thought this was a good movie. The little things Alfred Hitchcock did in this movie like zooming in and out and filming at different angles, having Jefferies look through not only Thorwald’s window, but other neighbors’ windows as well, and having other characters visiting and bringing in outside information to Jefferies all made this movie more interesting. Without these, this movie probably wouldn’t have been very exciting. Even though Alfred Hitchcock was know as the “Master of Suspense,” he was also very good at the little details that kept the viewers interested.