Rear Window Critique
The movie rear window has a strange way of showing the audience the movie. The camera always shows the movie from the perspective of the crippled guy in the wheelchair. Almaost none of the camera angles come from a perspective that he cannot view. The different night and day scenes give me a sense that time is moving forward. The movie moves very slow. The protaganist just seems to sit in his wheelchair bored waiting for his leg to heal. The clothes the characters wear seem to match the 1950s life. The only time in the movie when the actors motion did not seem realistic was when the guy fell from the apartment. The set seemed to perfectly match a general New York community in the 1950s. The fact that almost no one locks their door seemed very unrealistic for a place like New York.