70 Years Later, One Alfred Hitchcock Classic Perfectly Embodies The Anxieties Of 2025

The “back window” of Alfred Hitchcock celebrates the 71st anniversary later this year, but its re -watched it in March 2025, the film plays differently from ever.

If you don’t see it before, or you need to activate the plot, the movie James Stewart is as a photographer broken his leg and is limited to his apartment in New York City while recovering. Bored of his mind after he was for weeks, he begins to search for his window and spy on his neighbors, only to notice one of them to participate in some suspicious activities, and he becomes obsessed with knowing what is already going on.

When watching the movie again this week, I am surprised by the number of similarities in what we are seeing now. It seems that the modern equivalent in staring outside the window in our neighbors is looking at our phones, which gives us a window to a much broader world, and I think that many of us feel that we are the character of Stewart, unable to do so in reality Do Very, despite the same testimony in varying degrees every day. Whether the bombs are still falling on Gaza during the ceasefire or watching Donald Trump and Eileon Musk the rules and dismantling the constitution in front of our eyes, there is a rude that these global events that remind me of Paris Thorwald (Raymond Power), the Corner neighbor who disturbs me overcoming the crime he adheres to. There is an arrogance of the character and these modern characters-expect that there will be no negative consequences for anything they do.

There are especially terrifying moments in the movie. One of them, when Stewart is watching the character of Grace Kelly, stormed the Thuwarawald apartment for evidence that Thorwald has killed his wife, Thuwarad is unexpectedly returning home and begins to attack her. Stewart pants and fills him watching from afar, but in a leg he throws and temporarily depends on a wheelchair – there is nothing he can do to save her.

Another terrifying moment comes during the end of the “back window”, when Thorwald comes to the Stewart apartment and attacks it. Stewart is able to take a little fighting using the flash on his custody of the attacking blindness temporarily, but highlighting this villain is not enough to stop him – he gets forward and eventually expels Stuart outside the window. Fortunately, in the movie, there are the police to break the fall of Stewart and arrest the bad man. But given that the social safety network of this country is part of what is eroding actively, and it seems that there are any legal consequences for war, incitement or participation in the rebellion, it seems that we will not be lucky when the bad guys come directly to us.

Writer John Michael Hayes, who adapts to a short story written by Cornell Wolretic and was inspired by many real murders, which were used in something with this story-something global that managed to withstand through McCarthy, the Cold War, and any number of other metaphors that its fans apply over the past seventy. (I had completely forgotten until this moment that I had previously written about it as a borrowing of life during the early days of the epidemic.) Hitchcock is likely to be one of the most famous directors who watched the world, most likely known as “Pyscho”, “More than his movie”.

I talked a little about the movie in today’s episode of The /Film Daily Podcast, which you can listen to below:

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