Rear window- Alfred Hitchcock

We watched a film done by Alfred Hitchcock called the  "Rear Window". It  is where a famous photographer named Jeff who as got him self injured trying to get a perfect shot for the newspaper company he works for and then finds himself trapped in a wheelchair. Inside his lack of freedom and his limited options. He passes his long days and nights by shamelessly maintaining a secret watch on his neighbours. Jeff stares through the rear window of his apartment at the goings-on in the other apartment windows around his courtyard. As he watches his neighbours he assigns them such roles and character names as "Miss Torso", a professional dancer with a healthy social life or "Miss Lonelyhearts", a middle-aged woman who entertains gentlemen callers and of particular interest is seemingly mild-mannered travelling salesman Lars Thorwald, who is a older man with a nagging, worthless wife. One afternoon, Lars pulls down his window shade, and his wife's never-ending rasp comes to a sudden halt. Out of boredom, Jeff casually thinks up a scenario in which Lars has murdered his wife and disposed of the body in gruesome way. Jeff's opinions turned  out to be the truth. This type of plot according to sources say As in most Hitchcock films, the hero is a seemingly ordinary man who gets himself in trouble for his secret desires.

The film is also well known for its first scene, where the shot is one long pan. It pans from window to window showing all of his neighbours living their everyday lives. I quite like how this scene is framed and filmed. It's almost as if you are looking from L.B Jeffries point of view and you can see what he actually is seeing.