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This movie could have been about a 9 but they built it all up to the most stupid and predictable ending ever!
Where was the twist?
What was the message? Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean your neighbors aren't trying to kill you...? Really disappointing.
Hitchcock had it primed to deliver a powerful ending with Stewart's paranoia either destroying his own life (getting his girlfriend jailed, his best friend fired, and losing his own mind) and/or destroying his neighbor's life for no reason (getting him arrested for murder even though his wife was still alive, or killing him/suicide out of fear).
The era this film was made demanded a much more wholesome ending. As a result we were forced to accept that despite all logic and evidence to the contrary, the paranoid crackpot murder theory of a shut-in depressed photographer was dead right from the beginning.
This film should be remade with a much more intelligent and thought provoking ending.
This movie could have been about a 9 but they built it all up to the most stupid and predictable ending ever!
Where was the twist?
What was the message? Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean your neighbors aren't trying to kill you...? Really disappointing.
Hitchcock had it primed to deliver a powerful ending with Stewart's paranoia either destroying his own life (getting his girlfriend jailed, his best friend fired, and losing his own mind) and/or destroying his neighbor's life for no reason (getting him arrested for murder even though his wife was still alive, or killing him/suicide out of fear).
The era this film was made demanded a much more wholesome ending. As a result we were forced to accept that despite all logic and evidence to the contrary, the paranoid crackpot murder theory of a shut-in depressed photographer was dead right from the beginning.
This film should be remade with a much more intelligent and thought provoking ending.