Window at Rear

Another classic, of a voyeur who sees too much. Rear Window!

James Stewart is invalided with a broken chair, and after half an hour he finally sees something suspicious. While dragging in his nurse and girlfriend, he gets a detective friend involved, who find there is nothing suspicious... or isn't there??? However, another incident arouses his notice, and then he's sending others into trouble. How long until trouble comes to him?

This is a movie about private lives, and near the end we finally get a speech about 'is it ethical to snoop?' Which, of course, is a bit late in the movie for that. Not to mention the movie does justify it by proving him right.

That said, there is more than one life going on there, and we do see that while he is quick to jump to doing something, he doesn't need to get involved in every case, they are able to take care of themselves.

Which does make me wonder if there's another movie in this idea. Remove the murder plot, and instead have lives play out through windows, which yes we watch, but just as pure voyeurs, and events involve without our interaction. This has probably been done, and certainly sounds like a pretentious enough idea, I think it would work well.

So a decent enough movie, but I think it could easily be trimmed down to be a better watch.

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