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Was Waiting For A Big Twist


I was waiting for a twist or some sort of reveal that would turn out to show that who he suspected of murder was actually just going through a divorce or something like that, and that the main character himself would go to jail because his nurse mentions him possibly getting caught for peeking in on people near the beginning of the movie. I wasn't disappointed at all by the actual ending but I was suspecting something else so it was kind of a surprise in itself for him to have been right about the whole situation.

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Same. I was expecting great things from Rear Window after all the hype and, while it was entertaining enough as it went along and Grace Kelly was ridiculously good to look at, the end was far from the gobsmacking revelation I felt it was building up to.

It’s a playful Hitchcock mystery but doesn’t have anywhere near the power of Vertigo or Psycho.

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