Rear Window best shots/angles

 

         To begin, Rear Window is a very interesting movie, and one that I have not seen one quite like it. This not a movie with multiple big sets and different scenes, the scenes were either in Jeffries room or the view from outside of all of Jeffries' neighbors rooms. I really enjoyed how we felt apart of the movie, it felt like we were spying across to watch everything the neighbors were doing and not trying to get caught as well. I enjoyed the mysteriousness of only knowing the neighbors by nicknames and only being able to see what they were doing when in front of the windows. It makes you wonder what was going on when the blinds were closed or they were behind a wall we couldn't see around.

         The camera shots/angles that I enjoyed throughout the movie was the camera moving above Jeffries making us feel more powerful than him, I enjoyed the shots of him looking out with the camera because you can see in the reflection the buildings, the camera pans from one room to another was very cool and represented the movement of our eyes if we were actually there, I liked the close up shot of the part of the set where the cars would drive, it was cool to see all the movement from pedestrians and cars and how are vision was so limited in this shot. It is also hard not to mention the camera shot of Jeffries as he was being thrown out the window, and I really liked the all black scene when Thorwald walks into Jeffries apartment, although Jeffries was in a wheelchair he looked very scary sitting all alone in a dark room with his face not visible.

       However, my favorite shot of the whole movie was when Lisa was in Thorwald's room and Thorwald just walks in and catches her going through his stuff. It was really cool to see Lisa in the bedroom then the camera pans to her as she is walking to the living room and just as she is about to leave we can see in the corner of the shot Thorwald walking up and about to enter his apartment. This scene was very intense and made us feel extremely helpless, we feared what would happen to Lisa, we couldn't save her from Thorwald, we couldn't tell her Thorwald was coming all we can do is watch. Thorwald then turns the lights off making it harder to see visibly from our perspective, and when all hopes seems lost and Thorwald was gonna strangle Lisa the camera then picks up as the officers was up the stairs and into the apartment to save the day. It was really cool to see how Hitchcock was able to use such a small set but through great camerawork able to add so many elements and changes to our perspective as we watched the movie. One small apartment of a bathroom, living room, and kitchen seemed huge.