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          The film, Rear Window, is an Alfred Hitchcock film starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly made in 1954. This film is about a man, LB Jefferies, who is a photographer bound to a wheeled chair in his apartment after he got in an accident at his last photography shoot. The viewer is also bound to Jeffries’ apartment as we follow him and his eyes as he is obsessed with looking out the window. The reasoning behind this obsession; is murder. Jeffries is certain one of his neighbors, Lars, has murdered his wife. He spectates his neighbor’s lives watching where they go, what they do, and who they have over. This then eventually leads to him discovering the murder which his girlfriend, Lisa Fremont, is also invested in. At the end of the film, Lisa breaks into Lars’ apartment when he comes in and starts hurting her. Jeffries calls the police and they come just in time. Lars gets away and sneaks off to Jeffries’ apartment where he then continues to hurt Jef...

     The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was a very interesting film. This film is a silent German film created in 1920 and directed by Robert Wine. The story starts off with the character Franzis talking to a man and telling a story. He tells the story of Dr. Caligari and his somnambulist, Cesare. Dr. Caligari has a place in the fair where people can watch him wake Cesare to then ask him questions about the past or future. When Alan, Franzis’ friend, asks when he will die, Cesare responds with, the next dawn. His friend Alan is then murdered that night. Franzis then spends his time trying to prove that it is Dr. Caligari and Cesare behind the murders. When people go to investigate Dr. Caligari, they find a doll in place of Cesare. They then realize Cesare and Dr. Caligari are behind the murders and get ahold of them. The story then ends with Franzis finishing the story and the whole time he is in an insane asylum making up a story about the other inmates.    ...

     After watching Lois Weber’s Suspense, there are several afterthoughts I had. Lois Weber was a silent film director who created the short movie, Suspense, which she created in 1913, over one hundred years ago. The story is about a woman at home with her baby while the maid packs up and leaves. While she leaves we see a robber enter the scene around the same time the wife gets a call from her husband saying he won't be home until late. While the wife is doing housework, we can see the robber look into the house from the window. The wife looks out the window and sees the robber. She then calls her husband when the robber suddenly cuts the phone line. We see the husband scramble to get home while the robber is looking through the house. The husband gets back just in time. The robber then gets greeted by the police at the house. This short movie was fascinating to watch and inspired many more movies.         The scene where the robber is looking u...