Rear Window

How many Masterpieces can one artist concieve in a lifetime? One? Two? Three if much? To most that's about it. But in one time or another, comes one that can turn everything he touches into gold. Shakespeare was like that, Da Vinci was like that, Chaplin was like that, just to name a few.

Another person that had this gift was Alfred Hitchcock. He's the kind of movie maker that knew exactly what he was doing and what he wanted.

He could turn a story about birds who attack people without any reason in a great thriller, and he did the same with the story of a man in a wheelchair, who can't walk or leave his room.

Rear Window is the story of L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) a photographer who broke his leg in an automobile accident and now has to stay never ending weeks inside his appartment, in the company of his girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly), his maid Stella (Thelma Ritter) and his camera.

So to ease the boredom, Jeffries begins peeking at his neighbors. What seems like an innocent hobby, turns into a police investigation when he believes that he's the witness of a murder.

A typical Hitchcock movie, it's loaded with suspense and plot twists.

It's difficult to say if this is Hitchcock's finest, because of all the other films he did, but Rear Window deserves all the recognition and fame it has.

It will work for the audience 50 years from now as well as it did 50 years ago.

10/10