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Rear Window
The story and visual perspective are dictated by its main character that is imprisoned in his apartment due to an accident during a mission of his profession as a magazine photographer.
He is confined to a wheelchair from which both he and the audience observe the lives of his neighbours.
He escapes his boredom by spying on his neighbours, one day becoming convinced he has seen a murder. Cheerful voyeurism, as well as the behaviour glimpsed among the various tenants, affords a droll comic atmosphere that gradually darkens when he sees clues to what may be a murder. All this happens in the summer, during a heat wave, enhancing his boredom. This boredom in a certain way gives the main character an excuse to spy or observe the lives of his neighbours.
He has been spending weeks in his wheelchair doing indifferently peeks at the neighbourhood. That neighbourhood is a crowded area, that due to the heat wave is more exposed as people have their windows open allowing the main character to spy everyone. But spying could be considered a bit offensive, Hitchcock presents the character's spying as a harmless voyeurism, nothing more then to keep him occupying the time.
Although his voyeurism is criticised by his nurse, that time by time makes jokes about his spying and reprimands him for his "disgusting" activities...