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In Rear Window, Hitchcock presents the audience with a film, of which the action takes a
while to build up
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Once the action begins to take place nearing the end of the film, all the built up
suspense is shown to lead into a caught murderer, restoring peace within the neighborhood
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The establishing long shot shows us that neighbors are playing music quite loud, nobody
is there to hear Lisa screaming for help when she is being abused by Lars
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With the lights within the scene switching off, the audience can see an opportunity for another
crime to take place
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Because it was nighttime, most of the neighbors were getting
ready to sleep, which means that the amount of witnesses is minimized
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To examine the events in more detail, Jeff uses his camera through which we
see
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The fact that Jeff really needs to zoom-in

with his camera on Lisa, the distance between the characters is highlighted which is reflecting on
their limited interactions
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This also leads the plot
forward, as the suspect realizes that he has been watched for an uncertain amount of time and his
murder could have had a witness he will want to eliminate
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Seeing that she ended up being fine, he noticed that Lisa
was in trouble and reported abuse to the police before it even took place
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Lisa’s trespassing allows the plot to
move forward as she finds the wedding ring of Lars’s wife and is arrested
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Lisa was present in that scene, which is possibly what gave her the idea of trespassing
for the cause
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As it is nighttime, we have always been shown the neighbors
keeping to themselves and not interacting with each other, which contrasts with how they are
during the day, where their windows are wide open and they speak to each other
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When we see Lisa climbing the building’s ladders, we are shown a sense of

danger, especially when she is on the outside of the highest balcony
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In terms of editing, there are multiple uses of after action cuts, which are shown between
Lisa and Jeff
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The effective use of short sentences in dialogue here emphasizes that Jeff did not expect
Lisa to get this involved in his suspicion
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The tracking of the superior character in this scene reflects
on the built up action and suspense here, which keeps the viewers on edge, wanting to see the
scenes that follow
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The action is shown with effective cinematography,
highlighting Jeff’s professional, photographic point of view

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