Week 4: Rear Window: My feedback

This week, we watched a classic film, Rear Window. To be honest, in the begining, I thought I was going to be bored. But I guess life is full of surprises. After watching it, I learned to embrace it, even though the first act was very slow and somewhat boring. Eventually, the film got to its pic and I couldn't help but watch till the end of it as a murder mystery was being solved.

Briefly, in Rear Window, a 1954 mystery thriller film by Alfred Hitchcock, L.B. Jefferies, a professional photographer with a broken leg. Jefferies watches his neighbors through their open windows until one day he realizes that one of his neighbors, Lars Thorwald, might have murdered his own wife. In this film, Jefferies is struggling to convince Lisa Carol Fremont (his girlfriend), Stella (his nurse), and New York Police Detective Tom Doyle (his friend), that he witnessed a murder. Luckily, in the end, Jefferies is able to convince everyone that Mr. Thorwald killed his wife own wife, and the villain is apprehended by the police.

What I found very interesting in the film was the interactions between Jefferies and Fremont. Jefferies assumed that Fremont was not his type by asking her a series of tricky questions just to prove his point. Luckily, Fremont with her diligence proved him wrong by showing him that she could be as advanturous as he is. Lastly, I always look for a happy ending in a film and the last scene was well scripted with, finally, a good conversation between Jefferies and Fremont.