The Movie itself takes you to a a block of houses there all of the actions takes place.
Jeff, the main character is a daredevil photographer that is trapped in his apartment, during the days he observes throught his window to the neighbors that he has. His boredom leeds him to a shocking experience that he finds out later on.
One of the key elements that i have liked on this movie was the whole screen play, how it took place and how Alfred Hitchcock used such fresh ideas to make a movie. The innovative ideas of the shooting, and the edges of editing is way more futuristic for 1954. Even the diagetic sound gives us the feeling of reality in the movie, you can feel in Jeff's place with the big lense watching your own neighbours.
What makes this movie stand out of the grey mass is camera angles and editing. Points of view gives the viewer a different experience than other movies. The whole concept of being trapped in one place while the actions is around you, not being able to do anything yourself is quite irritating and at one point nerve wracking. That what happens to Jeff, the main character, in the place when he can't do nothing just sit and watch, the suspense is one of the main things that builds up the tension and makes his girlfriend and the nurse explore scene of the crime. The director at one point uses the every single neighbour to create diversity of situations when anxiety hits the roof when they find out that Thorwald really killed his wife.
