![]() This past weekend, I saw "Gravity", a sci-fi space drama directed by Alfonso Cuaron and starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. This is a harrowing, suspenseful scene, not with respect to the plot, but with respect to the helpless and in-the-dark-feeling themes. The clip ends with Thorwald looking up at Jeff with total understanding of what he has been doing. We can hardly see what is going on in Thorwald's apartment, and we can hear nothing. ![]() This gives us the spine-chilling effect of helplessness, like Jeff feels, and we are possibly going to be voyeurs of a murder. The action of the scene plays out at a distance, with us getting the view from Jeff's position. In the scene above, Jeff's girlfriend is searching the place for evidence that Thorwald, the neighbor, killed his wife. As boredom gets the better of him, he starts snooping on a suspicious neighbor, and his paranoia of this man grows the more that he watches him. In this film, our protagonist is a photographer who, for the time being, is confined to a wheelchair. "Rear Window" is one of Hitchcock's many acclaimed thrillers. ![]()
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