Advanced camera movement, even in the 1950s, can make people unforgettable.
The story begins with the bored voyeurism of a man with a broken leg who discovers through the back window a ballerina, a lonely woman who lives alone, a composer obsessed with music, a middle-aged woman basking downstairs every day, and a couple with a puppy. , the newlyweds, and the protagonist of the murder case, the businessman and his bedridden wife.
The protagonist Jeff's meticulousness as a photojournalist makes his opponent a businessman with a rope knife and suspects. The disappearance of the businessman's wife also deepens his doubts, making him suspect that a murder may have occurred. Even though his police friends didn't believe his suspicions at first, the truth was finally revealed when his girlfriend and nurse joined the search to find evidence. But unfortunately, Jeff also paid the price of another broken leg for his voyeurism.
The whole storyline is not very ups and downs, the most tense part is the last ten minutes. But the victory lies in the combination of voyeurism and suspense, and the simple reflection of everyone's life behind the window through a special lens.
Maybe everyone has a mask outside, but the life by the window must be real. There are lonely people who yearn for love, newlyweds enjoy love, and after time passes, there is love that is exhausted by marriage, and there are people who die of love.
But even if someone dies in love, life goes on and life in the rear window goes on. Whether it can still satisfy the desires of voyeurs is unknown, or we have changed from the rear window to the Internet to spy on other people's lives, but that is another topic.
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