Rear Window

In modern day society, we have so very many nosy and peeking people trying to see what everyone else is doing. These peepers are can be the sort who sit up in their rooms just bored to tears, when they see something or someone outside or across the street or next door and wonder what their neighbor could be up to. Being human as we are, we are all always curious about things, but there are just some things that it is better to keep your straying eyes out of, for who knows what neighbors might do if they found out that you were spying into their personal business?

Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is an amazing classic film created way back in the day. Some may even say that it’s the father of the film Disturbia, which is more or less a remake of Rear Window. This film is about a young man named L.B. Jefferies who is stuck up in his apartment with nothing to entertain himself or hold his attention for too long, so he starts nosing into his neighbors’ lives. He gets to know all of the people that live around him without them knowing that he is observing them through their open windows. Jefferies brings his girlfriend Lisa and nurse Stella in on his new hobby of people watching after noticing some odd goings on one night in one of his neighbor’s homes. Jefferies believes that he witnessed a murder, a husband killing his own wife in the building across the way! Oh sure, he calls a detective who explains away why Jefferies saw his seemingly innocent neighbor carrying out trunks and briefcases in the middle of the night and cleaning knives and saws, even packing his own luggage, looking as though he is ready to move out of his home and quick. All throughout this time however, the husband’s wife is nowhere to be found.

Jefferies believes that it is up to him and his friends to solve what really happened that night, but being unable to leave his apartment himself due to an injury, the girls go sneaking around the neighbor’s house trying to gather evidence to prove their theories. Unfortunately, Lisa gets caught intruding in the neighbor’s home and the only way that Jefferies thinks of to save her is to call the police. While talking to the policemen, the neighbor spies Jefferies through the window, and later makes an attempt to take Jefferies life for our young hero has seen too much. Luckily, the young man is saved in the knick of time when his friends rush in and apprehend the fiend.

Although it worked out that the boy was a hero for helping to bring down a murderer, the lesson to be learned here is that people shouldn’t be so nosy just because they have nothing better to do. Spying on people is often a good and quick way to land you in hot water, or in the hands of a crazy man. This film teaches us to busy ourselves with our own lives, and don’t meddle in the lives of others if it’s none of our business.