Techniques To Create Suspense In Rear Window By Alfred Hitchcock

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Throughout the film “Rear Window,” Alfred Hitchcock uses a multitude of techniques to create and weave suspense into the plot. Throughout the film, viewers and characters are mostly aware that Mr. Thurwald is a shady person with a rocky relationship; there is no suspense about the actual murder, but the fact that they are living in the same complex as the murderer. One technique is through montages; to call attention to 1:35-1:42, or the break-in montage, the attention goes from Jeff to Jeff’s view, which shifts from the sleuthing woman to Miss Lonelyhearts, by the time he looks back to Lisa and Stella, Lisa is climbing into the apartment, then so on and so forth. Eyes are not always on the important moments, they shift with Jeff, so we get