My Thoughts on Rear Window

Rear Window is a 1954 murder mystery movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It stars James Stewart who plays the protagonist LB Jefferies and Grace Kelly as Lisa Fremont, the love interest of LB Jefferies. The movie follows the story of how an injured photographer solves the murder of one of his neighbors from a window in his apartment. The movie's unique style of only seeing things through the window or the lens of one of Jefferies's cameras provides an interesting viewing experience. It adds to the suspense of the film and gives the feeling that the viewer is in the room with Jefferies as they only know what he knows. However, I thought the beginning of the movie was hard to follow due to the unique style of the movie, but as a whole, the movie was enjoyable to watch. There were some weird moments in the movie that were caused by outdated editing compared to today's editing abilities. One scene that sticks out is towards the end of the movie when Thorwald is in Jefferies's apartment and the police run to the apartment. The running was sped up, which just made the scene look odd. Overall, the story was interesting and for its time period was a good movie. 

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