RECOMMENDED: [ cognitive dissonance ] movie night IV : Rare Window (1954) by Alfred Hitchcock / 🇬🇧

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window, and becomes convinced one of them has committed ... Rear Window (1954) is an intriguing, brilliant, macabre Hitchcockian visual study of obsessive human curiosity and voyeurism.

Rear Window (1954) is a Hitchcock masterpiece analyzing voyeurism, surveillance, isolation, paranoia, and domesticity, trapping the audience in photographer Jeff's limited viewpoint as he spies on neighbors from his wheelchair, blurring the line between spectator and participant, and reflecting Cold War fears, modern anxieties about privacy, and critiques of cinema itself, all within a confined apartment complex setting. The film uses its unique single-perspective setup to explore various themes.

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