Rear Window 

Camera movement played an interesting part throughout the movie, because the audience is looking through the binoculars or Jeff's camera most of the time. Because of this, the camera was constantly moving in the same way someone wearing binoculars would move around to look at all of the different apartments.

Shot, Reverse, Shot was common when Jeff, Stella, Dt. Doyle, and Lisa were speaking with each other. However, Hitchcock modified the way it was done by not having the camera directly shoot over the characters shoulders. The moving camera and characters moving throughout the apartment helped to show dialogue without having to seem like an interrogation scene.

While the main characters are good at what they do and know how to act well, I was most impressed by the neighbors. The neighbors had little to no heard dialogue or close ups, so they had to be able to act well enough to get their point across in such a way that is easy to notice, but without feeling forced.

Visual effects were rather poor compared to what we see in movies today. However, in 1954 they were state of the art. The flash photography was used to momentarily blind Thorwald as he walked closer to Jeff, and Jeff falling out of the window were two main uses of visual effects.

Tension was created through bot visual and sound effects. While the ladies are digging in the garden, Thorwald starts walking home. You can hear the sound of footsteps and the camera appears darker while watching the women. To strike fear into the heart of the audience, the movie is filmed through Jeff's own camera. Because of this, when the women become concerned, they look up at Jeff, effectively staring directly into the eyes of the audience and becoming a gateway to what Stella and Lisa were feeling as they were about to get caught by Thorwald.

Explicitly, the film was about a man who was stuck in a cast and would watch his neighbors out of his window because he was bored. The man--Jeff, noticed one of his neighbors acting strangely and led Jeff to believe that his neighbor had killed his wife. He brings in a detective who doesn't believe the story, so Jeff, along with his girlfriend Lisa and nurse Stella, decide to catch Mr. Thorwald and prove that he killed his wife. After calling Thorwald, he comes to Jeff's apartment and drops Jeff out of the apartment in such a way that causes immense spectacle and Thorwald is caught by the police and confesses to the murder.

Stella describes the implicit meaning of the film best when she says, "We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change." The implicit meaning of the film brings out what was going on during 1954 due to McCarthyism. People were so afraid of communism and of people being communists that they would spy on their neighbors and turn each other in, hoping that by turning someone else in for being communist, they would be able to support that they themselves were not affiliated with the communists.

Is turning in random people for potentially being communist ethical? I believe that was a main idea that the 1954 Rear Window was subtly discussing through Jeff spying on his neighbors. Was Jeff invading his neighbors privacy? Yes. Did the act of spying help him to catch the "bad guy?" Again, yes. I am not sure whether Rear Window really had a side on the discussing of Privacy vs. McCarthyism, but the movie does bring to light what exactly is happening and leaving the audience to decide whether what the characters did was ethical, or just an immense invasion of privacy.