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When a photographer is bound to a wheelchair due to a broken leg, he begins to spy on his neighbours out of his apartment window, due to boredom, his curiosity builds rapidly when he discovers something rather suspicious.

Rear Window is the prime example how much you can create with such little. As a viewer we are forever in Jeff's apartment, much like himself and find ourselves, figuratively, watching the film through his eyes. This obviously creates a limited amount of what we can see and we never actually venture from the apartment complex, however this does not hold the movies back but makes it so much better. It easily builds excitement and tension as we are left trapped and are unable to discover further on the strange case of Jeff's neighbour but are left to watch it evolve and unravel. To say this movie was made in 1954, it easily competes with other mystery orientated films of today.