Movie Review #7: Rear Window, 1954
This movie, like many of Hitchcock's films, is one of my favorites. I always think that the title should be "Rear View Window," for some reason. As I think about it, it may be that I'm focusing on the view....that from the lead character's window and camera. Jimmy Stuart as the lead, trapped in his wheel chair with a broken leg, sits in front of his window day and night. Used to tracking down wildlife and other hard-to-capture subjects for his shots, he's confined to his apartment complex, where every window, including his own, is a lens. And, what life he finds living in his own backyard! It's a if he can see see into the souls of those through his lens.
Oscar Wilde once said famously, "Life imitates art, more than art imitates life." I think this phrase is very fitting, as what had once been the subject for art, now is a living, breathing art in the making....stories come to life, seen through the lens of Jimmy's camera. How surprised he must have been to be almost murder by one of his subjects!
I recommend this movie...if for nothing more than to see a good film, and enjoy a well dressed future Princess Grace Kelly at the height of her career.
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