Rear Window Critique

Rear Window was one of the different movies I've ever seen. For a whole movie to be shot in one scene this was a spectacular movie.

I think the directing in Rear Window was Brilliant, but it could have been more realistic. What I mean by this is that the story line could have made the characters seem as if they had sense. Now I've never murdered anyone but, if I did I would have enough sense to leave town and get as far away as I could. Another situation in the story I thought was a bit unconvincing was when the photographer was spotted by the murderer and he heard the man coming to the door and he didn't lock it. These moments in the movie made me feel that the characters weren't very good thinkers.

In Rear Window the lighting was very convincing. The way the photographer could turn the lights and duck off then become almost invisible was very interesting.

The sound played a great part in the movie. As the murderer opened the door and entered the room of the photographer the music in the background was almost saying he was doomed. Also when the murderer began to thrown him over the balcony the music began to intensify making the viewer think it was the end for the crippled photographer.

The costumes were on point, and by that I mean they were great. I wouldn't say it is hard to pick costumes the for the characters in this movie, but the costumes they choose were realistic. The photographer had on regular around the house clothes because he was home out of work, his mistress had on the seductive but, classy clothes. I feel that every character's costume was a good match from the detective to the murderer.

In the entire movie the were only two sets the photographer's apartment room, and the apartment across from his room. I believe the sets were life-like, the photographer's apartment had actual items that an apartment room would have in it. The apartment building across from him was surrounded by a realistic environment and there were clotheslines hanging from the building.

There weren't many specials effects in the movie but the effect that was used wasn't so impressive. When the photographer was tossed over the balcony I was not even the least bit convinced that he was actually plummeting to his death.