後窗 Rear Window (1954)

評分：★★★☆
Director:Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:Cornell Woolrich (short story "It Had to be Murder")
John Michael Hayes (screenplay)
Cast
James Stewart ... L. B. Jefferies
Grace Kelly ... Lisa Carol Fremont
Wendell Corey ... Det. Lt. Thomas J. Doyle

It’s a typical classic Hollywood movie with closed ending. The characters are the middle class just like the main audiences. The story accumulates the suspense until the end of the story at the time when the characters get through the conflicts. I guess the time of the story was the beginning that people started to live in the apartments gathering in big, crowded cities. When people are so close in physical distance but so far in mental, they could be curious and peek at each other in anytime. However, since they spoke to their neighbors less and less, and knew others in indirect way. They could sometimes be suspicious of the people who live in front of them. The suspense is the way this film does for the dramatization.
To the motive and the metaphors of heart peeking and social viewing , window is the most important sign. This film presents the human interests between the neighbors which were decreasing at the time. It is interested that we could see typical American social atmosphere in different windows. I think it’s a good suspicious text that contains love affairs, and American social atmosphere.