Rear Window is an american suspence film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, who was also famous with his classic psychological horror film: Psycho, and it is based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story It Had to be Murder. The story is about a professional photographer named Jeff Jeffries, who had broken his leg in an acident, moved to to Greenwich Village apartment so as to take a rest for a while until recovery. As he was so bored of staying in an apartment that had nothing to do, he started to look out into the courtyard of the the others's apartment. He killed his time by observing his neighbors. There were many different kind of people including a dancer, a songwriter, several married couples, a middle-aged sculptor and Lars Thorwald, a wholesale jewelry salesman with a bedridden wife. During the obsevation, he discovered that Thorwald might kill his wife, he told it to his girlfriend Lisa Fremont and his insurance company home-care nurse Stellabut, but nobody believe his saying. After that, they found that he is right so they worked togerther to find evidence of the murder and finally they solved the case.
Here is the trailer of Rear Window:
Jeff Desom remixed the footage from Rear Window.(It's amazing!!)
As the whole story is around what Jeff have seen, many scenes reveal Jeff's point of view and is taken in his room where he can look out to the window.
Here are some of the movie clips from the website:
We can see that Rear Window had been applied many special film effect to deal with some particular scenes. For example, In "Up the stairs", it only used the foot stepping sound to represent Thorwald's approach.
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