Rear Window

This film kept its promise and showed me everything through the rear window, as if I were peeking into someone's apartment. This is actually a very unique way of storytelling, and to be honest, I loved it. The first few minutes are invested in introducing the characters of the entire society, and there was a whole variety of people living there with each other every day, just like an ideal and normal society... Until it's not-so-ideal and normal. It shows us a social rot within it. The people just live there without caring about others at all, and that's now become the new normal, to just live with yourself and let others mind their own business. This is what we call "civil sense" now, especially with Gen Z. But I think Hitchcock knew that a society is a place where people help people. Coming back to the film, the characters are what I loved more than anything in this film. How every character is so individually written with their own ideologies and opinions is so good to see. And how well Hitchcock utilised each one of the characters to engage in the story just enhances this film way more than it seems, because even with different mindsets, they worked together on something in a perfectly well-coordinated way, which is blissful to see. Now the themes... On the surface, it is a murder mystery, but when we dig deeper, we see that it is about how the bureaucratic system slowly kills a man, how the idea of a perfect life and an ideal wife gets inside the mind of an individual and hollows it so much that the person takes wild and violent steps in desperation. And the same pattern is noticed with the MC himself, because he didn't want to marry Lisa because she was "too perfect" for him. So in a very subtle way, our protagonist is also the prey of the same disease as our antagonist. The subplot also tells us about the relationship and the differences between Lisa and the MC. How one of them HAD to compromise their ideal life to stay together is very brilliant, because Hitchcock didn't shout out loud about this; he just drops it, as quietly and beautifully as he could. Also, it shows us how a man who is too intelligent can't really fall in love, because love demands belief and trust, and to keep the big pride and ego aside. And so in this very way, Hitchcock shows us how intelligence is really a trouble for society. Because an intelligent man cannot help but think, "Get out of my life, you perfectly wonderful woman, you're too good for me." PS: I think I've talked more about the subplots and the things this film revolves around than the actual film.