Review of Rear Window (1954) by Al M — 10 Nov 2012
An absolutely perfect blend of comedy, drama, and thriller, Rear Window remains one of Hitchcock's true masterpieces. A film simultaneously about voyeurism and everyday life, Rear Window explores the all-too-human desire to impose meaning upon existence.
As James Stewart's characters watches the lives unfold through his window, he automatically generates narratives from the few slices of their lives that he has witnessed. Some of these narratives prove true while others prove entirely incorrect by the time the credits role.
Ultimately, then, Rear Window concerns the human desire to impose neat narrative logic upon the chaotic manifold of existence, and this imposition may sometimes prove true, but--more often than not--this leads to the creation of more and more fictions.
This review of Rear Window (1954) was written by Al M on 10 Nov 2012.
Rear Window has generally received very positive reviews.
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