Alfred Hitchcock once said that he enjoyed playing the audience like a piano, he claimed that when the audience went home after the movies, their minds were played with. This was taken as a very negative statement by certain individuals, but in hindsight, this is the truth. Every time we see a movie, our opinions, ideas, and even perception are changed and played with. One of the perfect examples of this phenomenon is ‘Rear Window’.
When we see this movie, some people would argue that this is rather ordinary as a movie, a simple murder mystery if you may. But Rear Window is more than that. When we look at the movie, the camera really only follows one person, the protagonist L.B. Jeffries, who is sitting in his apartment and is confined to a wheel chair. In most other works of film, we see the director following other characters and where they go, but in this case, we do not follow any character after they leave Jeffries Eyesight. Once Jeffries cannot see him, we cannot see them anymore. This in a way morphs us into Jeffries and makes us feel like a character in the film.

When we have limited information regarding other characters, we end up making assumptions about them which may or may not be true. When we look at the characters from the window, we have the exact knowledge of the events as Jeffries and thus we are as intrigued as Jeffries.