Rear Window

I have been a long fan of Alfred Hitchcock and his film Rear Window did not disappoint.  Although it starts off a little slow, it pretty much has to in order to get an idea of who his neighbors are that he is watching.  Jeff is a photographer who brakes his leg while photographing a race car which goes out of control (this is explained silently while the camera passes a series of pictures of the accident).  Jeff is confined to his wheelchair where his only form of entertainment is to observe the lives of his neighbors out his rear window.  The concept is extremely interesting where you basically only see what Jeff is seeing and can only hear what he can hear.  Throughout the movie you follow the lives of very different people.  Miss Loneyhearts seems to be depressed without a man, a songwriter struggles on his piano, Miss Torso prances around her apartment and has men over at night, the newlyweds immediately close the blinds to keep their privacy, and then there's the Thorwalds.  Their constant fighting makes Lars Thorwald a very suspicious man in Jeff's eyes when his wife mysteriously disappears.  There were points in the movie where I was sure Thorwald killed his wife, and others where I thought that Jeff was just misunderstanding the situation.  The one thing that amazed me was knowing the entire setting was a set and not real apartments.  The sets were so real, each room had running water and electricity.  Hitchcock makes the ending ironic in a way when Jeff sits again at the window like in the beginning but this time with two broken legs.