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Rear Window: Best Shots/Angles

    Rear Window, which is about a photographer named L.B. Jeffries that recently got injured trying to get  a good shot on a racetrack. He ended up getting hit by one of the race cars and it put him in a wheel chair for several weeks. While he was stuck in his apartment due to his injury, he would constantly look out his window at the neighboring apartments and see what was happening within his neighbor's life. He suddenly noticed something very suspicious when one of his neighbor's wives went missing. This neighbor was named Lars Thorwald and Lars was constantly doing suspicious activity such as leaving his apartment multiple times a day with a suitcase. L.B Jeffries then tried to convince his girlfriend, Lisa Fremont, and his detective friend, Thomas Doyle, that Lars had murdered his wife and was trying to dispose of her body. The detective was very doubtful at first but once Lisa Fremont snuck into Lars' apartment and found evidence of the crime, Dt. Thomas Doyle was then convinced and started to pursue the case much harder. Lars then noticed that L.B. was peeping through his window and tried to kill him by throwing him out of the window, which is when Lars was then caught and arrested for the murder of his wife. Many shots throughout this film were similar yet they were also very important to the story of the film. 

    An important shot throughout this film was the shot outside L.B. Jeffries window into his neighboring apartment's windows. This was the most commonly used shot throughout the film because it gave the viewer L.B. Jeffries' point of view on everything that was happening. The whole film was based off of one set which made the shots used throughout the film very important to the storytelling aspect. The panning shots that would constantly show what was happening in L.B. Jeffries apartment and what he thought was happening in the apartment building across from him. The close up shots used on L.B. Jeffries, Lisa, Thomas Doyle, and even Lars gives the viewers great intuition on what those characters are thinking. For example, throughout the film Lisa was not always convinced that Lars was actually trying to hide the murder of his wife and the viewer could see the doubt on her face through these close up shots. Another reason why the close up shots were so useful were to display L.B. Jeffries' intense curiosity on solving this case and his strong belief that Lars killed his wife. Throughout the film, these were the most important and beneficial shots to the viewers of the film. 

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                                               A great close up that was used within the film: 



    

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