Too Scary; Didn't Watch - REAR WINDOW

Episode Date: May 22, 2024

A mid-atlantic accent, dog in basket, photographer that can’t quit and Grace Kelly’s wit - we’re recapping Alfred Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW! Join us as Henley recaps her second favorite film (after dune 2)Movie stats @ 22:32Recap @ 28:34Follow the show: @TSDWpodcast on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram.Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and additional content!Rate Too Scary; Didn’t Watch 5 Stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Emily, Henley, and Sammy.Advertise on Too Scary; Didn't Watch via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Podcast. This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi everyone, welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, the horror movie recap podcast for those too scared to watch for themselves. I'm Emily and I am too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Henley and I'm also too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Sammy and I love watching scary movies and so I watch them so that you don't have to, usually, but not this freaking week. Not this freaking week, baby. Not today.

Henley watched the movie. Henley, was it scary? It was a little scary, but it was very manageable. It was very manageable. You guys don't even know which movie I'm doing, do you? No idea. Don't tell us. Don't tell us.

Don't tell us. I can't wait to be surprised. It's going to be a big surprise. And listeners, if you can't freaking wait to find out the surprise, you can navigate straight to the recap by timestamps in the show notes because we have some very exciting haunted housekeeping today. Yes, we do. I am absolutely thrilled to announce our very first annual. Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves. It could be a maybe yeah first of who knows

uh hell chela ever heard of it no you haven't hell chela hell chela perfect title no no no no no it's no questions we will not be taking questions uh we decided because there are so many new horror releases this year that we are excited about, we are going to spend all summer. That is June, July and August, 13 weeks. Count them doing all new releases. They are going to all be video episodes available on our Patreon. And we are going to have a lot of great guests. It's available on our Patreon. And we are going to have a lot of great guests.

A lot of correspondents that you guys love are going to be joining us for some of these recaps. And, you know, just all the movies that you're excited about. Maxine, Long Legs. Yeah, and some of them are going to be live episodes that you can tune in, be with us as it's happening. Some on Patreon. We will be with us as it's happening. Some on Patreon. We will be doing a live show on Moment, open to the public. And all this information, it will be coming to you soon.

You're going to get that full schedule so you know what to be looking forward to, what to go see in theaters if you're the kind of person who wants to do that. And if not, not baby we got you covered you're still gonna be in the know all summer long yeah yeah people are talking about maxine you're gonna be like i know i know about that movie i fucking know everything oh maxine heard of her heard of her i know long legs i know that that's gonna be you are you guys oh are you guys talking about alien romulus i know about that i'm familiar oh was were you guys talking about that movie because i know about the movie that happens to me all the time in grottage connecticut all the time i bet oh my god you're walking down the street

everybody's talking about alien romulus and you get to poke your little head in and say i know about that we've got you covered we can't. I'm really excited. This is the first time we've done like a full three months of programming like this. And I just am absolutely delighted. Me too. I'm delighted. It's going to be huge. And it's honestly very ambitious. And I'm definitely not worried about it.

I'm not. I'm calm and chill. It's going to be great. I'm very excited also i have to do so much less work than sammy who has to also go see all these movies in theaters though i will be seeing some it is gonna be great it is truly like it is basically like three months leading up to my wedding yes your bachelorette party will be oh that's so funny i didn't even think about that the midst the midst. In the midst. And I'm fucking pumped. Best summer of my life, baby. It's going to be great. We should do a live episode from your

bachelorette party. Oh my God. We should absolutely live stream my entire bachelorette party. Let's live stream your bachelorette party. I'm going to want that out there. Yes. We all are. We definitely all are. I can't see any reason why we wouldn't. Yeah. So. Well, if we do any painting, which it sounds like there might be some painting. There's definitely going to be some painting. I think we all have to agree to post what we make so everyone can see. And that's coming from the woman who said she needed to practice her painting prior to the back.

When I feel like I'm going to be bad at something, I want to put as much pressure on myself as possible. Love that. Love that. Just really raise the stakes. Raise the i am practicing though i'm gonna take some um lessons you have my word you have my word henley i love this for you we'll definitely we will be posting posting pictures uh live stream less likely less likely to be completely honest um this is also this summer festival it will be our five year anniversary wow so it's kind of a huge summer it's a really kind of huge really

huge summer hell chela hell chela 2024 i can buckle up sorry there's a i can hear kids like actually screaming in my backyard. So maybe you guys will have. Maybe that will come through. They're so excited for Hellchella. They're freaking out about Hellchella. Ambient child screaming for Hellchella. Hellchella 2024.

Yeah! Emily, isn't it funny to think about that we will always have been doing this podcast longer than we've been married? Yeah. Because we will be doing this for the rest of our lives because you know when you start a podcast you have to do it till you die so and this podcast will always be older than your children absolutely always my first baby my first real baby first baby and my first not my first husband unfortunately my second and joel will be my third um really really huge huge yeah i can't wait so yeah everybody stay tuned more details to come we're announcing an announcement so to speak watch this space love to announce an announcement so okay now back to regular programming i gotta know yes did anything scary happen to you guys this week?

Unfortunately, something scary did happen to me this week. Oh, no. I'm still kind of in it. It's going to be fine. It is going to be fine, but I I'm not happy about it. So yesterday I was Saturday morning. I'm awake, but I would rather not be. You're in bed.

You're having all you know, you're thinking about all the things on your to-do list as you do. And I realized, oh shoot, this summer is when my, my eight years are up with my IUD. I have swapped that bad boy out. Oh no. Oh no. Which yeah, is already not fun. Already not fun. But I, you know, I got to do it. not fun but i you know i gotta do it so my gynecologist who i love has changed uh like medical groups recently i haven't been in a year so i like was like oh i should look and make sure they're still covered by my insurance figure that out so i go to pull up my insurance i log in to blue shield and i see your coverage expired in 2023. Oh, no. That's not right. Because I had coverage until 2023. Then I got my job.

And I switched over to their network. But then I got a new job this year in March. Signed up for Covered California again. I recall doing it because it was so much more expensive than it was the last time I signed up. And I remember doing it. But I was like, that's so weird what's going on so I and I'm like okay I log into cover California yep no coverage in this year what the fuck's going on so I'm then I'm starting to panic I search my emails like I know I did this I know I signed

up for health care like I remember doing I picked my plan I pay I saw the number I picked dental which I was really patting myself on the back for being a fucking adult who got dental insurance. When I see my email, yes. Okay. This is what I signed up for. This is my plan. This is my monthly payment.

Here we go. Okay, great. I find another email in my search that says, we need you to upload your driver's license in order to prove your identity to start your health insurance. Now, mind you, this is only one email that came at the same time as my other emails being like great you signed up you paid here's your receipt no follow-up no nothing also i had only been off of blue shield uncovered california for eight months me the same person with the same account same birth date same social person who had been verified why would they need to verify

like what why would they need to verify my identity again? And why would they not restate that they need to do that? Hey, we notice it's been a week or two and you haven't done this yet. So I fucking click the link, upload a picture of my driver's license. I mean, the link hadn't expired. And now when I click it, it's like, great, we have your ID. But of course, I discovered this on a Saturday. It's been a weekend. i'm like will it will i have health insurance like will they be able will it will too much time have passed right for them to reinstate it because also the really fun thing about fucking marketplace health insurance is you can only sign up in the new year in the enrollment period once a year or when you have a qualifying life event qualifying

life event is getting a new job i had that but now i ain't gonna have another qualifying life event until the end of september i could get medical in the meantime but that's a whole fucking to do and i would really like to have a say over the person who goes into my uterus you know like i would really love to be able to select that doctor oh no so we'll see what happens uh you better believe i'm gonna call monday morning um figure out if i can have health insurance and if i can't joel and i might get married like we might get married fucking four months early just to have health insurance which i mean it's great i'm excited to marry joel but it's like so insane that that is the world we live in that that is how this fucking country operates.

Even with technically like government health care, it's still this fucking bullshit to do. I want health insurance. Like I would, I'm trying to pay you money to give me health insurance. Like I would like to be covered by health insurance and you're not letting me do it also of course immediately I'm like okay so I've been without health insurance for two months like Jesus fucking Christ what if something and I'm also immediately like I can't leave my house

until I get this figured out yeah it's so stressful it's so stressful I it's so stressful we've been dealing with also like nightmarish health insurance stuff because I was on Netflix health insurance for so long and I had Silas and May covered. But then we had to switch to Tim's and Tim had like the shittiest health insurance because Tim like literally never goes to the doctor and like hasn't been in the dentist in like 10 years and like will just pays for like the least expensive one. and like will just pays for like the least expensive one. And we thought that when we could switch it over to the rest of us, that we could also switch to like a better health insurance plan. That ends up not being the case.

So our deductible is like so fucking expensive and it basically isn't going to cover anything. And when May goes to the doctor, it costs like $700. Oh my God. For like no reason. Like it's like, they like look at a rash and it costs $700. It's like they like look at a rash and it costs 700 dollars it's like what what the fuck like why is it that expensive well and children need to go to

the doctor like every day oh my god i've already spent i've already spent so much money at the doctor for silas and may when they haven't even like like they've been fine well they have to get 10 000 shots and do like it's yeah, that's insane. It's so expensive. And we're like fucking up a creek without a paddle for the rest of this year. It is so stressful. And we are we are by and large, extremely fortunate to live where and how we do in this country. But it is so broken and disgusting. And when I start to think about it and be faced with it, I'm just like, we basically just want people to die. Oh, 100%. We would love for all of us to just

disappear and die. Because certainly if you end up on the streets, we want you to disappear. Because like, oh, no plan for you. Please just be gone. It's so terrible. It's like if you're dealing with any kind of serious chronic issue or any kind of life threatening medical God, it's so expensive. So also I've been like rationing my medication for the past two days, trying to until I can like figure this out in hopes that I don't have to pay that much. But if I can't get my alternatives figured out by Monday,

I will pay that much to get my medic. It's just, it's so, so fucked up. Look at like GoodRx and Mark Cuban's company. I'll look into cuban's company i'll look i'll look into mark cuban's company i just it's so fucked yeah oh i don't like this narrative that we're living in this timeline this timeline is a bad one it's a bad one okay let me let me talk let me bring us back up let me bring us back up bring us back up please great i'm gonna talk about what we all knew i was gonna talk about which is that the scary scary thing is that I stayed up late to watch Challengers. On Friday night when it came out, I was like, Tim, we're watching it.

And Baby Mae cried, cried and cried and cried. And I was like, if she stays up past nine, it's going to be really hard for me to start, you know, a two hour movie after 9 p.m. I tell you, she fell asleep at 9.01. She was asleep. And I was like, fuck it. It's on. We're doing it.

So we stayed up late. We watched it. The thing about staying up late to watch a movie that you know you're really going to like is you're like Sammy after you see Evil Dead and you're buzzing around the room. Adrenaline. I can't imagine trying to go to sleep after watching Challengers. We stayed up until like 2 a.m. after watching Challengers because we were all just out of our minds.

I'm pretty sure I took like three sleeping pills and was still awake at like 1 a.m. Nothing can bring me down from this high. And I'm like still recovering from it, honestly, because it's just like, I didn't get any sleep that night. And then also PSA, don't watch challengers too late. You got to start early. It's honestly true. I have to wake up at 6am the next morning. Oh, no. And take care of small children. They're gonna murder me. Um, yeah. So anyway, I saw it. I loved it. Loved every second of it. Have you been listening to the soundtrack? No, no. I can't wait to revisit that for sure. That's coming up. Don't do it before bed. Not before bed. First thing in the morning. Tim and I tried to recreate the last shot multiple times by, no spoilers, but running across the room and trying to figure out how that would work. That's going to be the new, uh, like dirty dancing

jump that couples do. It's going to be the new like dirty dancing jump that couples do. The ending of Challengers. And yeah, I just I loved it. And, you know, it's just great. Just cinema's back, baby. Oh, my God. It's back. It really is.

It's so fucking good. I tried to convince Joel to watch it again at home last night. And he was not on board, if you can believe it. Wow. Just pretty fucking rude. Chill. I'll break him down eventually. Yeah.

It does cost $20 to rent, which is, you know, makes sense because it's cheaper than going to see it in the movie. But it is $10. $20. I pay any price. I pay any price. To see it for a third time in my own home, I'd pay any price. Name your price, Luca.

You freaking got it. Sammy, did anything scary happen to you this week? Yes, I am having more cat issues, if you can believe it. It is springtime slash summertime, and the feral cats in the neighborhood are out and about. Oh, yep. And I have two boy cats. They are both neutered, of course, but they get very territorial when they see other cats outside and they are stupid. And so then they attack each other thinking that they're defending their territory. It's called redirected aggression. I have done a lot of research on this i have tried many things to reduce it i have fell away diffusers all around the house oh wow i uh try to give them higher spots to climb up to because part of it i feel like is also mac feeling like he needs to

remain the dominant man of the house. And part of how they can do that is getting up really high. I'm actually in charge because I'm up high. I'm the highest one. I'm the highest one. So I can look down on all of you, spit on you as you pass. But so two scary things resulted of this latest, well, probably more than two because I've lost sleep because they're up in the middle of night fighting.

What happens? Mac attacks Bunk. Bunk gets hurt, gets like scabs. And then Bunk is hissing anytime anybody comes near him because he's hurt. And so then they can get in another fight at the drop of a pin. And drop of a pin? Drop of a hat? I feel like it's more typically drop of a pin and drop of a pin drop of a hat i think it's more typically drop of a hat but i got yeah you're meaning you could hear a pin drop you could hear a pin drop when these cats are about to fight but not after once they are fighting good luck

so anyways it's just been chaos over here and i've been really trying to figure out how to stop it i live in an apartment it's not like i can close the fence in my backyard and make it so that cats can't get in there like i'm just on the street with a door also like good luck keeping cats out with with anything yeah they're wily. outdoor cats to try to see where they're sitting. It's really funny. And so I now just sit on my couch with my little app watching like paranormal activity style, the outside, like swiveling it back and forth, looking for stray cats to try to, because I have a shock pad, which is essentially like a plastic mat with little things that electrocute you when you step on it like magicians when they are like hey you shake my hand nice to meet you like that yeah yeah classic

magician move classic magician stuff and cats really hate it obviously and so i'm trying to figure out where they're sitting so i can put that pad there so so that then they get too scared to come up to my door like home alone like home alone-ing all the neighborhood cats. Yes. I'm trying to get crafty here. I'm at my wit's end. I don't know what to do. And so in addition to that,

I bought the hugest fucking cat tree, which it's like a floor-to-ceiling cat tree that is a tension rod. I've wanted one of those. It's like the stripper pole type of thing. I should maybe replace my stripper pole with a cat tree that is a tension rod i've wanted one of those like the stripper pole yeah i should maybe replace my stripper pole with a cat tree uh somehow even though it is really big it's kind of more subtle than regular cat trees because it's not like freestanding yeah you don't need all that as much space yeah you don't need so much width and i think they're gonna like it more

because they get a lot of height it hasn't arrived yet but I'm really anxiously awaiting its arrival and I have hovered over that purchase for a while yeah so I'll be eager I'll be eager to hear um they're not cheap no that hence the hovering had it been cheaper I would have done it by now yeah but I just yeah exactly I'm I'm desperate and so listeners if any of you guys have similar struggles and have found any solutions i'm all ears because I really hate seeing my boys fight like that It's really scary and sad and they really hurt each other and I like know that they don't mean to do it

They're just you know dummies and acting on instinct and not understanding and so I feel like other than moving I don't know how to like permanently solve the problem and I would love to hear ideas or even just ways to make it a little more bearable you gotta just kidnap cats, drive out into the country far away and dump them somewhere, somewhere else. That's probably what you gotta do. Yeah, probably.

I guess, yeah. I could try that. That sounds... I mean, that's gonna be a constant job. Those cats, your neighborhood cats are... They keep on coming. Oh my God. Not fixed and not slowing down.

No, there's new ones all the time. And I've seen animal control coming around, but I don't know. And I guess you don't want to call animal control because they'll probably just euthanize them, right? Isn't that what they do? It's like so sad. Yeah. I mean, there are certain cat like rescue agencies that will just fix them and then put them back out on the streets. But like, again, that is just that's and then put them back out on the streets but like again that is just

that's a hard thing to manage yeah and i'm not sure that that would do the trick because i don't think it no i don't think it's that they're not fixed i think it's just their presence in general that riles my guys up yeah oh boy anyways so boy. Anyways, so that was a little scary. And it's an ongoing scary thing as well. So any pointers, send them my way. Send your prayers, thoughts and prayers. Also appreciated any witchcraft you could do. Maybe I could do some witchcraft, honestly.

There you go. I mean, it's worth a try. Yeah, why not? A little protective spell. Get out of here, cats. Yeah. But not my cats. Right.

Get out of here, other cats. Other cats. There's got to be a way to do that protect this house you know anybody that has any spells that they think would be applicable it's been a while since i've done any spells i should do some spells me too me too summer of spells summer of spells perhaps spell chela all right henley what freaking movie are we talking about today i can't wait a second longer okay well speaking of being riled up we are doing rear window oh yeah baby you know i've never seen it i've never seen it neither of you have seen it neither of you have no okay no and i have not seen disturb you either me neither but i would like to this is my new favorite movie so wow i fucking love it only lasted i know that honestly i'm fucking pissed off rear window and challengers i guess you never said challengers was your favorite it was dune part two in part two and

that's what i'll continue saying until i'm on my deathbed wow dune part two um rear window close second so rear window came out in 1954 rated pg but as we know well before pg-13 was a rating but i still kind of well i don't know you guys can tell me what you think at the end um it was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Michael Hayes and Cornell Woolrich, stars James Stewart, Jimmy Stewart. Jimmy Stewart. Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, and Selma Ritter.

It has a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, 8.5 on IMDb, and 8.7 on Metacritic. Wow. Huge numbers. Huge numbers. Huge numbers. A lot of people think this is Alfred Hitchcock's best film. Wow. And you would agree. And from the limited amount of Hitchcock films I've seen,

I would agree. I loved it. I really did love it. Which Hitchcock films have you seen? I don't even know. I don't know. Don't ask me that. Psycho. I've seen Psycho. Yes. Have you seen The Birds? I've seen The Birds a long time ago. I'm trying to see which ones I've seen Psycho, yes Have you seen The Birds? I've seen The Birds a long time ago I'm trying to see which ones I've seen I've seen Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo I've never seen Vertigo North by Northwest, Rope I've actually kind of seen

A lot of them? A decent amount But wow, there's so many more Guys, he made a lot of movies Yeah He really did He really did He really, really did

I love Rope I've never seen rope rope is really fucking good i want to see it now um okay so some trivia for you guys please it was filmed at paramount studios where i worked for several years and really just didn't same time oh yeah did you work there in 1950 i I didn't appreciate how special it was to be there, honestly. Oh, sure. Old Hollywood is like, there's nothing like it. There really isn't.

Imagining those times, and certainly there were dark sides to it. Sure, sure, sure. Especially on an Alfred Hitchcock set, specifically. Yes, yes. But that's like a really magical time in film history. It really is. So all of the sound in this movie is diegetic, meaning that all the music, speech, and other sounds come from within the world of the movie. Wow. I wonder what editing that was like. That sounds like a nightmare. Yeah, I bet it was hard. But there's a, one of the apartments that you can see is a piano player, a musician. And so there's piano music throughout that's like supposed to be him

kind of playing, but you know, it's also just the soundtrack to the film. It's kind of amazing. So while shooting, Alfred Hitchcock only worked in Jeff's apartment. Jeff is Jimmy Stewart. The actors and actresses in other apartments wore flesh-colored earpieces so that he could radio his directions to them. So he was never anywhere else. He was always in that apartment, and pretty much the entire movie is filmed from that apartment. I was going to say, from what I know of the premise of this movie, that kind of makes sense and would maybe add to other actors' performances. It seems like a fun choice to do that. And then also all the apartments in one of the apartment buildings had electricity and running water and could be lived in.

Whoa. And that just speaks to the specificity of the set. The set took a couple months to build and cost the equivalent of a couple million dollars that it would today. And it's just on a soundstage. It's just one stage. And then there's a lot of trivia about this, but the only thing I'm going to tell you guys is that Jimmy Stewart was 46 years old and Grace Kelly was 24 and turned 25 when this movie was made so sure that feels about yeah right and they made many other movies together or at least some maybe not many right um i think so they have is to catch a thief grace kelly as well yeah it is oh no that's carrie grant

but that's carrie grant and then i'm not sure yeah i'm not i'm not super well versed on my me either stars from this time even though i did go to film school and should know this stuff but yeah i kind of mix them up as well there's all sorts of stuff i should know as far as age gaps go i know humphrey bogart is takes the cake that one's a bit more offensive yeah i mean they just truly they're barely thinking about that now you know they they were just simply not not thinking about that then also sorry jimmy stewart was a babe yeah and so that makes it okay totally makes it okay i mean i i think humphrey bogart was pretty hot in a less obvious sort of way and so it's okay and it's okay and so hot people can't do

anything wrong if you're hot you can do anything you want actually so and grace kelly you know gave up acting to marry prince albert is that who she married what was his name he's the prince of monaco she became the princess of monaco so she gave up acting had kids prince albert isn't that the dick piercing i think it is um anyway that's it for the trivia wow are you guys ready to hear about this movie i'm so ready very ready and henley i'm so proud of you wow thank you my new favorite movie oh my god it's great to go outside your comfort zone. It is great to go outside your comfort zone. Because sometimes you fall in love.

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first of all obviously credits roll for like 10 minutes before the movie starts. They really made you sit through them. You gotta fast forward through that. I don't care who made this movie. Because who has the patience? Who has, I mean, unless you're planning on meditating or something, I don't know. Yeah, I mean, you're setting the mood, sure, but like, I'll trust the movie to do that. You get into the movie theater, you meditate for 10 minutes.

Now with these trailers, you're meditating for like 40. That's true. Okay, so we open on our set. So really a huge part of this film is the set. They really managed to cram an impressive amount of New York City apartments onto one soundstage. Basically, everything is from the point of view of Jimmy Stewart's apartment, and you're kind of panning around, and there's buildings on all sides, and then a courtyard in the middle, and then his building.

And it's 100 degrees outside. It's 1953, so we're living without air conditioning, aka it's hell. Everyone's windows are open. Hellchella. It's Hellchella. Hellchella before Hellchella. It's Hellchella in the 50s. Yeah, to be like in a New York City upper floor apartment in the summer without air conditioning. Not okay.

Thank God nobody lives like that now. It's supposed to be the Greenwich Village. That's the vibe. And we're getting a sense of the neighborhood. We have real pigeons walking on the roof. So we got real pigeons in this film. Inside the Paramount lot? On a soundstage? On a soundstage. We have real pigeons. I'm sure those pigeons were released in a nice, humane way after this filming was completed.

Definitely. Definitely. We're seeing people showering. We're seeing people sleeping on their fire escapes. There is one small alleyway that you can see that goes out to just like a little sliver of a street. And you see a pack of children run past on the street. And behind the street, you can see a tiny sliver of a restaurant. So everything is like very textured.

There's a lot of layers. There's a lot of activity going on all the time we pan into jimmy stort's apartment this is jeff i will be calling him jimmy stort or jeff throughout this entire film great great we're gonna live in this apartment this is where we're gonna be his name is lb jeffries and he has a broken leg and he's in a wheelchair and he's asleep he's covered in sweat and this is a. He's covered in sweat. And this is a, um, cast is nasty,

but it smells gross. Gotta smell gross. I bet it's so gross. His skin in there is all gross. He has one of those like back scratchers and he periodically just like shoves it in there and scratches. You gotta have those, but that, but your skin in there is so like soft.

Ew. Yeah. You scratch it it it's like really fucked up you guys have you ever had a cast you haven't right no no never broken they're disgusting oh that seems gross absolutely because you can't clean it you can't clean it you can't do anything when you get it taken off the the skin area everything underneath is, I mean, it's all atrophied and like nasty. Like soggy. It's like absolutely sopping wet.

And there's no muscle mass. So it's also like shriveled up. No, it's horrifying. Ew. Nasty stuff. Nasty stuff. And in the summer? Gross.

No, thank you. So he has a full cast on his leg and it actually even goes up kind of into his midsection so it's a big old cast we're getting a glimpse of his apartment we see a broken camera we see photos everywhere um of like very exciting events so photo of a bomb going off a photo of a a car accident. We're getting the sense that he's an explorer. He's a photographer. A photographer. His phone rings and it's his boss from the magazine where he works. And his boss wants him to go on assignment in Kashmir because he thinks he gets his cast off this week. But alas, he has one more week of the cast.

It's not quite ready. He's going to be in this cast for eight weeks. I think it's been seven weeks so far. And then he's got to grow all his skin back. And he's saying to his boss, he's like, no, just let me go. Let me go. Like, please, I need to do something. I'm going crazy. And the boss is like, no, you can't go anywhere in your cast.

You crazy? Like, no, you're too valuable to the magazine to play around. He says, I didn't ask for you to stand in the middle of that automobile racetrack. So that's how he broke his leg. I guess he was standing in the middle of a racetrack. Oh my God. He says, if you don't pull me out of here, I'm going to do something drastic, like get married. This is a theme throughout the movie, which is that Jimmy Stewart doesn't want to get married. It's really funny to threaten to get married. Yeah. It's a fun way to... He's like, how do we introduce this? I guess.

It's going to come up a lot, so they don't have a hard time introducing it. Okay, great. So while they're talking... Let's hear how he feels about it when he needs health insurance because he might be singing a different tune. Yeah, when those bills for that cash come. Yeah, he might want to get married right away.

While they're chatting, the camera's panning over all the neighbors, so we're kind of meeting our main neighbors. We have a musician who's working on the piano piece. We have a family with a little girl. We have a woman who's a sculpture artist. There's a blonde woman who's a dancer

and always in her underwear. We see her a lot. They really like to show us her. We have the couple that sleeps on their fire escape, and they have a little dog. And then we also have a married couple who is like a big dude and a woman who is always in bed, and they seem to be fighting a lot. is always in bed and they seem to be fighting a lot. So he hangs up with his boss. He's stuck in his apartment and Stella, the insurance company nurse arrives.

Oh, she's not an, Oh, she's one of the like tough talking, no nonsense, older women. That's her, that's her character.

Okay. She's there to help him kind of like take care of himself because he's stuck in his chair. So she cleans up his apartment, kind of like helps him get dressed. She also gives him a massage, but it's the least sexual massage you've ever seen. The massages that happen between her and him are very funny. They're like extremely perfunctory and she's very resentful of even having to do it at all. And she's, you know, kind of chastising him for just looking at all his neighbors all the time and telling him that he really needs to stop doing that. And that's. What the fuck else is he going to do? Yeah, dude. She's like, something bad's going to happen.

I can feel it. I might get married. And then she says, like, and how's, you know, how's Lisaisa doing and he's like lisa lisa wants to marry me that bitch um he's like i'm not ready for marriage i'm not ready to settle down i'm only 46 also a 46 in 1953 is a 66 today. Like he has full gray hair. Sure. And has the bearing of a 75-year-old man. Like everything about him is so old.

So for this man to be being like, I'm not ready to settle down. It's like, okay. And then he's saying that Lisa is not right for him. She's too perfect. She's too talented. She's too much of everything. She belongs to the rarefied air of Park Avenue. I need a girl who's going to go anywhere and do anything. She's not the girl for me. I need a girl who's going to go anywhere and do anything.

Would you guys say you guys are one of those girls? God, no. No, absolutely not. I barely leave my house. I'll do very few things and go very few places. I want to be comfortable at all times. absolutely not i barely leave my house i'll do very few things and go very few places i want to be comfortable at all times i like to be in my house i mostly want to be at yeah home i was just complaining the other day to joel that i had too many evening plans and all i wanted to do is sit at home and watch my television shows with him and oh that's sweet he really laughed at me.

You have the rest of your life to do that. Once you get married. That's true. Because that's what marriage does. It ties you down. It means you can never go anywhere or do anything ever again. Thank God. Oh my God, I can't wait.

So anyway, they continue to fight about this. She's like, you're never going to find anyone better than Lisa. And he's like, no, I'm not doing it. I'm not into it. So we cut to nighttime. He's fallen asleep. All the lights are out. It's dim. And we can hear kind of an opera singer singing in the

background. We hear piano music in the background. And all of a sudden, Grace Kelly's face just appears in front of him like a goddamn angel. The way this shot it's just a full her face just like comes straight into the camera and she has bright red lipstick on pearl earrings perfect blonde hair and just like a raging mid-atlantic accent her accent is what happened to that mid-atlantic accent it's so funny so distracting it. It is so distracting. No, she's like, hello, darling. Hello, darling. Oh, couldn't you? It's so weird to hear now because it's not a real accent. We all know it's not a real accent, but it also kind of reminds me of my grandmother, Nani, who definitely talked like that.

Nani would have put on a fake accent. Yeah. Oh, man. It always just makes me think of BoJack Horseman. In the final season, I think there's a character with a mid-Atlantic accent. That's so funny. Anytime I hear anyone do it now, it's great. If either of you, I wish that I could do it, because it's so funny. She is wearing a black velvet dress, long white gloves, a taffeta scarf. wearing a black velvet dress, long white gloves, a taffeta scarf. She works in fashion, and he's like the most disgusting person you've ever seen. His leg is sopping wet. It's just a wet, wet leg. 75 years old.

Absolutely reeks. He's just like fully in his PJs. He like oh lisa get out of here covered in sweat um throughout this film he is such an asshole to her he is so rude he's such a curmudgeon he's not nice he's not nice but she doesn't care she's not bothered by But she doesn't care. She's not bothered by it. It doesn't bother her one bit. We need to work on Lisa's self-worth. She knows what she wants, and she wants him. So she says, like, I'm going to make this last week the best week of your life. Are you ready to eat at 21, which is a restaurant at the 21 Club?

And he's like, what are you talking about? Do you have an ambulance outside? She opens the door. A waiter in a red suit comes in, has champagne. Lisa, that's so cute. Has a lobster dinner ready for him. Oh, she's like literally the fucking best. Like she's actually the best. Lisa, give it to somebody who knows your worth. Oh God, you guys. It really made me mad, but it's okay because, you know, it's just the movie. We just have to live in the world of the movie.

Exactly. This is what Lisa wants. Lisa, we respect your decisions. Lisa can make her own choices. And she's hot, so she can do no wrong. She can do no wrong. She probably needs health insurance. He has a nurse coming to his house giving him massages.

His insurance might be really good. And so, you know, they're about to eat dinner. His insurance might be really good. And so, you know, they're about to eat dinner. She starts trying to talk to him a little bit about, you know, maybe it's time for you to settle down. Like, maybe it's time for you to come home. Maybe it's time for you not to go away on so many assignments. Like, try a new kind of work. Stay here.

And he's like, fuck no. Absolutely not. Let's just stop talking about all this nonsense. There's no way. I want to get all this nonsense. There's no way. I want to get hit by cars. There's no way in hell. I said, bitch. She's feeling a little hurt at this point.

Fair. And they look out the window and they watch one of his neighbors. So this is Miss Lonely Heart. She lives by herself. We're going to call her Miss Lonely Heart. That's what they call her Miss Lonely Heart. That's what they call her. Is that her AIM screen name?

Maybe. Yeah. We watch her. She gets dressed. She puts on makeup. She goes and she opens her door as though she's letting someone in, but there's no one there. She talks to them. She pours them a drink.

Again, no one's there. Uh-oh. She's lighting candles. She's setting the table. there. Uh-oh. She's lighting candles. She's setting the table. She's serving them food. She's sitting down. She's pretending to talk. No one there.

Oh, no. No one there. I don't know. Maybe she just has a vibrant imagination. I don't think that's it. She's making her own fun. She is making her own fun. It's very sad. And it's pretty spooky, actually.

It's kind of upsetting. Yeah, maybe there is somebody there. It's very sad. And it's pretty spooky, actually. It's kind of upsetting. Yeah, maybe there is somebody there. It's upsetting to see. And then we pan upstairs and we see the blonde dancer. And she has three men over. She should give one downstairs. Jimmy Stewart is like, she looks like she's having fun. That was a pretty good Jimmy Stewart. That was really good Jimmy Stewart. It was.

She looks like she's having fun. Mine wasn't good, but I really liked what she did. And then Grace Kelly says, I'd say she's doing a woman's hardest job, juggling wolves. Whoa. Grace Kelly has the best lines in this movie. She tells it like it is. They give her the best lines. And there are a few coming up that I'm like, it seems like someone else is writing this movie when Grace Kelly speaks. All of a sudden, it's like, wait, what? So they keep talking about their future together, and he's getting upset. He's like,

are you ever going to eat fish heads and rice? Are you ever going to get shot at? Are those high heels going to be good in the jungle? You're not meant for this life. He's addicted to the adrenaline of his photography places that he goes, dangerous. It's also like, are you ever going to get shot at? I hope not. I know. That's not aspirational i know i'll eat rice i know fish head i don't know maybe if we go to the jungle i'll bring different shoes and then she's like you don't think either one of us could change and he's like i don't think so

and she goes i'm in love with you i'm in love with you i don't care what you do for a living i'm in love with you and he's like basically with you. I don't care what you do for a living. I'm in love with you. And he's like, basically doesn't say anything back to her. And so she's like, fine, I'm leaving then. Like I'm done. Goodbye. I'm done. Okay. And she starts to go and he's like, wait, what? He goes, don't go. What the fuck? Why are you leaving? And he's like, can't we just keep things status quo? He's like, such a fuck boy it's crazy oh my god

i want you to bring me 21 club food and stuff and just like talk shit to you yeah just let me be mean to you what is the problem she goes no i'm leaving and then she goes at least until tomorrow night and then she leaves oh l. So she's coming back. Let me remind you, he's 45, she's 24. She also, though, has the air of a 40-year-old woman. Like she's acting. People seemed older then. It's actually really funny to imagine meeting a 24-year-old who acted like Grace Kelly right now, today.

Like, wouldn't it be so off-putting? Yeah, I think I'd be scared. Then she's gone. He's alone. It's dark. We hear in the distance a woman scream, don't. And he kind of looks around and then doesn't see anything. And then he falls asleep. He wakes up later in the night. It's thundering. It's raining very, very, very, very hard. You know. The lights are off everywhere. It's dark. He looks across the way and he sees in the apartment where the man and the woman who were fighting earlier, he sees the blinds are down and the man leaves wearing a black

raincoat and holding a big suitcase. How big? Like a suitcase-sized suitcase. Human-sized? I don't know. He looks at his watch. But not like a briefcase that could only fit a piece of paper. No, it's like a suitcase. Yeah, it can fit more than a piece of paper. He falls back asleep.

He wakes up again, and he looks at his watch again, and it's 2.30 a.m., and he watches the man come back into the apartment. And then there are other neighbors he's seen. He sees the piano man come home drunk. He sees the blonde dancer woman trying to fight off one of the suitors, making him leave. And then he also sees the salesman leave again, go back outside. So he's left twice now. And it's pouring down rain. It's thundering. That was another thing that was innovative

about this set is they built it in a way that would have like drainage because they like they had it rain. Yeah. That's the big part of it.

Cool. He falls asleep again and he's still asleep but we see the man who had left in the raincoat. We see him leave the apartment again with a woman

wearing a hat. Looks to be his wife. But we're not 100% sure. We don't know. The hat is a big hat. We don't know. We just know he definitely leaves with a woman. And Jimmy Stewart doesn't see that. Then he wakes up. It's morning time again. We're seeing all the neighbors. There's a sculpture artist, this woman who's working on a sculpture, which is like a man with a big hole in his stomach. And the mailman is like, whoa, what's that? And she goes, it's called hunger. There's like a lot of little asides and a lot of- It's called hunger. Ever heard of it? It's called hunger.

Hunger, see? Everyone's always talking. There's always like a neighbor, something going on with the neighbors. Everyone's always talking. There's always like a neighbor, something going on with the neighbors. We see a woman who lives on the top floor do a little rope pulley with her dog in a basket, bring the basket down. Little doggie hops out of the basket, runs around the yard. And the insurance company nurse, Stella, she comes back. She proceeds to give Jimmy Stewart the craziest massage I've ever seen. Like, it's like the fastest, most frenetic, like, craziest massage. She's like using so much massage oil and she's like, ah. And he's just telling her what he saw last night.

He's like, I saw this guy. He left. Why would you leave twice in the middle of the night? Like, he's a salesman. What's he doing in the middle of the night? And she goes, selling flashlights. I don't know. Stop looking at that stuff. He's like, no, something weird's going on. Like,

I haven't seen his wife today. Like, he's not pulling up the blinds. Like, what the hell's going on? And just then the salesman pulls up the blinds and like looks out the window and looks around at all the apartments. And Jimmy Stewart is like, get back, get back. And so they get back into the back of the apartment. And the nurse is like, you need to stop being so suspicious. But she's also kind of maybe getting a little freaked out too and a little curious and suspicious too. So then they watch the salesman take out his suitcase and he starts cleaning it,

full on cleaning the suitcase. Interesting. Something I have literally never done. Then we watched the dog, the little dog that was let out, start to dig at the flowers and the flowers are the salesman's flowers. We've seen him like tinker around in that garden before. So the dog is digging there and Stella's going to leave. And Jimmy Stewart is like, before you go, bring me my binoculars. She's like, okay, whatever. Fine. So she brings him his binoculars.

She leaves. He continues to watch the salesman. He watches as the salesman puts his jewelry back in the case. So that's what he sells. He sells jewelry, big costume jewelry, but he's not seeing his wife anywhere. This is me with all the feral cats in the neighborhood. This is you. Yeah. Well, what you need is just monitoring what's going on. A telephoto lens. So he gets one of his cameras out. And this is like the iconic image of him in a wheelchair with like the huge ass fucking camera. So he gets out his telephoto lens, really staring at the salesman up close,

watches the salesman as he literally takes a huge knife and wraps it in newspaper and puts it in a box. And it takes a huge saw and wraps it in newspaper and puts it in a box. And Jimmy Stewart's like, what the fuck? And then salesman gets tired, falls asleep on the couch. What would you guys do if you had seen all these things up to this point? Nothing. Nothing. I think I would do nothing at this point too but I might tell Joel I'd be like pretty weird thing happening over there and he would go yeah that's weird and we would watch Top Chef yeah I don't know what I would do I don't

know what I would do I would be really scared that he could see me that's one thing that he he does seem kind of scared that one moment but for the rest of he's like not scared he can see me. That's one thing that he, he does seem kind of scared that one moment, but for the rest of, he's like not scared. He can see him at all. I would be like so paranoid. From the other side of the street. If I saw a dude watching me with a telephoto lens and binoculars, that would,

I would do something about that. Yeah. Not okay. So then it's nighttime again. We're seeing all the neighbors doing all their neighborly things and grace kelly comes back they're making out she's saying how far does a girl have to go until you notice her like she's very in love lisa and um he's being an asshole he says says, if she's pretty enough, she just has to hang around. Oh, my God.

Goodness. And then. Grace Kelly's not pretty enough. And then she's basically like, I just want to hang out with. She's like, I love your mind. I just want to know all about it. And he goes, don't you ever have any problems? And she's like, I'm having one right now.

Yeah. You're a problem actually for me. Oh, I can't remember if this is the moment, but there's one moment where she comes in. I don't think this is it. I think it happens later, but there's one where she comes in and he looks at her and he goes, what'd you do to her hair? And she goes, what? And he goes, anyway, the salesman. Such an asshole. But she doesn't, she doesn't mind. So she's trying to talk about their relationship. He's trying to tell her about the salesman and what he saw last night. He can't stop looking over there.

He's saying something weird's going on. Like, why would someone have a butcher knife and a saw? There's something wrong. Then he said he saw the salesman leave a few minutes ago, and he hasn't come back yet. He went out in his undershirt ago and he hasn't come back yet. He went out in his undershirt and he hasn't come back yet. And then he goes, just how would you cut up a human body? How would you even do that? And at this point, Grace Kelly gets up and moves across the room and starts smoking a

cigarette and is like, okay, now you're scaring me. Like what's going on? You're actually really scaring me now. And he goes, shh, he's coming back. You're actually really scaring me now. And he goes, shh, he's coming back. And then we watch the salesman return in his undershirt, this time holding a huge rope. He's holding a big ass rope. And Jimmy's like, whoa, and takes the binoculars, is looking. And Grace Kelly grabs his binoculars, shoves him to the side and is like, will you just look at yourself? You are acting nuts. And if you don't stop, I'm leaving. At least until tomorrow.

And he goes, I just want to find out what happened to his wife. She's an invalid. I haven't seen her all day. No one's seen her all day. And Grace Kelly's like, well, maybe she died. And he goes, well, where's the doctor? Where's the undertaker? She goes, she could be sleeping. Maybe she's on sedatives. He's like, no, they've been fighting. I've seen knives, now a rope. Where's his wife? And she's like, lots of people fight. Lots of people have knives. You couldn't see everything, could you? And also, oh, no, she says, you could see everything, couldn't you? A murderer wouldn't parade his crime in front of an open window. You could see everything, couldn't you? A murderer wouldn't parade his crime in front of an open window.

Just then, the blind goes up in the wife's room. We see the salesman. He's rolling up his wife's mattress and strapping a huge trunk together with rope. And now Grace Kelly looks at him and is like, wait a minute. She. Actually. She's like start from the beginning again. What'd you see? A little weird. Okay.

So now Grace Kelly is like more on board. She thinks something weird is going on. Then Jeff is watching the salesman

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And Stella's like, I'm going to run and get the name of the freight truck company. So she runs out to go see if she can find out anything more. We see the salesman call someone. He's calling long distance. You can, Jimmy Swart can tell that. I guess you can tell if someone's calling long distance from the way they call on an old telephone. Maybe just like how many numbers they put in. Yeah. And then you see Stella down in the alleyway and she looks up at him and she just goes with her hands like like the emoji. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. So she missed seeing where the trunk went. The detective comes over, his old friend. And he's like, this is too obvious and a real stupid way to commit a murder in front of all your neighbors. And Jimmy Stewart's like, but anything's possible.

Anything's possible. It's also like where he lives. Like that would be probably the most likely place that you would murder your wife that you live with in the home that you live together. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I do feel like you don't,

why would you think that someone has been watching you 24 seven? I don't know. I don't know. So, you know, he's always also saying this man doesn't look panicked. I've seen all kinds of murders happen, but this man looks calm, cool, calm and collected. He doesn't look panicked at all. Maybe his wife took a trip and Jimmy starts like, no, she was sick in bed. Why would she take a trip and the detective's like okay fine I'll look into it for you and then he's like have you had any headaches recently and Jimmy starts like no and he goes any hallucinations he goes no so it's implied that maybe he has some like lingering PTSD or something going on maybe maybe. I don't know. Then we watch the dog dig up the flowers.

Again, the salesman comes out, shoos him away, and goes and pats down the flowers. My wife's buried there. Get out of here, dog. The detective comes back and says he looks into it. He says there's nothing suspicious going on. He's five and a half months into a six-month lease he doesn't have a criminal record the superintendent and two tenants saw him and his wife leave at 6 a.m this morning and that's what we saw too and jimmy stort like doesn't believe it at all he's truly convinced he's like you're fucking wrong i was asleep for that so i don't i don't believe it it's like you're wrong you wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong. You have to go search his apartment. Go

search his apartment. And the detective is like, I need a search warrant for that. I can't just go search his apartment. No, it's 1954. You can just do it. He's like, just fucking do it. There's been a murder. And you're like, okay, he's losing his goddamn mind. And he's like, you have to find the trunk. Find the trunk. Mrs. Thor have to find the trunk, find the trunk. Mrs. Thorwald's in the trunk. Find the trunk. She's not though. We saw her leave this morning. I mean, I guess then maybe she got herself in the trunk. Then the detective is leaving and he goes, oh, by the way, there's a letter in his mailbox or there's a telegram and it says, arrived, already feeling better, Anna. Guess what Mrs. Thorold's first name is? It's Anna. So Anna has just taken a trip to the country

to recover. That's all that there is to it. Sure. That night, Jimmy Stewart is back to spying on everyone. He watches the salesman come home with a laundry box. Two, spying on everyone. He watches the salesman come home with a laundry box. Salesman's putting all of his clothes on the unmade bed, packing up. Meanwhile, the piano man's having a huge party. And Jeff calls the detective's house. He's like, can't stop badgering this guy.

His wife answers and she's like, he's not home. And he's like, tell him to come over. ASAP. I need him here. This guy is lucky he has friends and a girlfriend. He is difficult. He's definitely difficult. Oh, this is when Grace Kelly comes back.

He goes, what the hell did you do with your hair? She's like, what? And then he goes, the salesman's back. He keeps talking. And in this conversation, he says, you know, she's been looking through this handbag, the handbag that she would leave on her bed. And Grace Kelly's like, her handbag? She left her handbag? A woman would never leave her handbag?

A woman would never do that. A woman would never leave her makeup, her handbag, her jewelry. A woman travels with those things at all times. They're part of her being. She would never leave. Woman is makeup. Woman is makeup woman is woman is jewelry she must be dead and she goes you know what this means don't you jeff and he goes no what she goes maybe the detective saw him leave with a woman this morning but it wasn't mrs thorwald it couldn't have been. And so he's like, genius,

that's great. You're really cracking the case. So they're bonding and they're excited about this new theory. Surely she's not leaning into this narrative to have anything to relate to him on and have a sense of closeness and to have him be nice to her. He's really into this idea. They start making out. And oh, also she tells him she's going to stay over. She's packed an overnight pack. And he is not into it. Like he's not, he's like, what? Absolutely livid.

He's like, I have to ask my landlord if he can do that. He's like such a jerk about it. She's unfazed, deeply unfazed. The detective shows up. He's like, this dude is not a murderer. I checked with the railroad. He bought his wife a ticket this morning. And then they tell him the purse theory. And he says, feminine intuition sells magazines, but it's a fairy tale. And they found the trunk. Miss Thorwald was not in it. It was filled with Miss Thorwald's clothes. And he says he's not going to help them anymore. And if you need any more help, consult the Yellow Pages.

And then when he's leaving, they're both really upset and they're quiet for a second. And then Grace Kelly just goes, I love funny exiting lines. Because he said, if you need any more help, consult the Yellow Pages when he left. That's what she says. It's like, what? It comes out of nowhere. Half of her lines are like, that is kind of funny. But that would be something that someone would say not in this movie.

Then we watch miss lonely heart she brings a man home a real one yeah he's young they're drunk and he immediately tries to have sex with her and she's not into it and she tries to push him away and he like attacks her basically oh god and then she attacks him back oh and then pushes him out of the apartment and he like attacks her basically oh god and then she attacks him back oh and then pushes him out of the apartment and she like closes the door and starts sobbing and then grace kelly and jimmy stort have kind of a little bit of a reckoning they're like do you think it's ethical what we've been doing and grace kelly says i'm not up on rear window ethics. Got the name of the movie. And they're both kind of like, okay, maybe we should stop this.

So she decides to go change into her dressing gown, which is a full gown. It's a full floor length, pale pink satin gown with like a full pashmina scarf thing. Wow. She comes out. She's like, look at me. Gorgeous. Just then we hear a blood curdling scream. A woman screams. They rush to the window.

And it's the neighbor across the way in the upstairs apartment screaming that her dog is dead. Someone strangled her dog. Whoa. Their neck is broken. And she's screaming at the neighbor. She's going, which one of you did it? Which one of you killed my sweet dog? Neighbors are supposed to like each other.

But none of you like us. We don't like each other. Did you kill him because he liked you? Just because he was a sweet dog who liked you. Everyone's out listening, looking like really upset and not sure what to do. And then she keeps crying and goes back in her apartment. And then everyone kind of just like looks at each other and just goes back into their apartment too. Also, by the way, this is a good time to note that a lot of people after this movie came out said that it was a commentary on isolation in cities, loneliness in cities.

Oh, well, thank God we solved it. Yeah. Thank God that doesn't happen in suburbia. Anyway, so they all go back in. Grace Kelly's looking really upset. And Jimmy Stewart is like, that detective almost had me convinced I was wrong, but I'm not. And she's like, what are you talking about? And he goes, who was the one person who didn't come out to the courtyard? Who was the one person? She was like, Lars didn't come out. He didn't come out. He was just sitting in the dark smoking a cigarette that whole time. Lars killed that dog. And she goes, why would he want to kill a little dog? Because

it knew too much. And then- Sniffing those flowers. So we cut to the next night. The nurse is over. Grace Kelly is over. Obviously she hasn't left. And they're looking at these little, I don't know what this is, but it's kind of like, you know, when you were a little kid and you had the viewfinder, like you would put pictures in. Yes. And switch through them, toggle through them. He has something like that, but it's actual pictures.

And they're pictures he's been taking. Yeah. It's probably just like the negatives. Something a photographer would have to look at negatives. Yeah. Yeah. That's really where that child's toy came from. Probably.

So they're looking at that and Jimmy Stewart realizes something. He notices that the flowers in the garden are not as tall. The flowers in the garden. The flowers in the garden. And then he became Irish. It was so weird. Now all of a sudden we're in Ireland. And now we're in Ireland. They're not as tall as they were two weeks ago. Do flowers shrink in two weeks? New flowers in the garden. Flowers in the garden. New flowers in the garden. He replaced the flowers in the garden.

Grace is like, I'm going to go take them up. I'm going to go take them up. And he says, no, no, that's too dangerous. He'll strangle you. Yeah, it's too dangerous. We've got to figure out a way to get him out of the apartment. I'll go anywhere and I'll do anything. I brought my jungle shoes.

My jungle shoes my jungle shoes i ate a fish head before i came over i love rice now um so he writes a note he writes to lars on the front then he writes what have you done with her and then he gives it to grace to go deliver it. Okay, so that's not too dangerous, just straight up accusing him. So she runs over, she runs up, we see her run up into the hallway. She runs up and she like slides it under the door

and then runs away and truly like gets out of there right before he sees her. Like she's leaving right as he like opens the door and looks out and she's just in the corner. So he reads it. He's like, what the hell's going on? Simultaneously, we're also watching Miss Lonely Heart. So this is the next night.

This is the night after her like assault that happened the night before. And she is laying out a bunch of pills. And the nurse is like, what is she doing? Like those are sleeping pills. So she calls them some name. But she's basically like, I've administered enough of those to, like, knock out the entire county. Like, those are sleeping pills.

Why is she, like, laying out so many sleeping pills? And they're like, oh, that's not good. And then Grace Kelly runs back into the apartment. She's exhilarated. Jimmy Stewart looks at her with a new love in his eyes. He's falling for this woman now. And she's like, we've got to go. We've got to go look under the flowers. We've got to go. I think that we're going to find the wife's wedding ring. That's what they're convinced. They saw him going through that alligator handbag. They saw him

looking at a lot of jewelry. And they think that his wife's wedding ring is amongst that jewelry. And if they can find her wedding ring, they'll prove that she's dead because no woman would go anywhere without her wedding ring. Woman is ring. As the nurse says, someone would have to chop off my finger before I went anywhere without this wedding ring. So that's, I disagree. I don't feel the same. Yeah, no. No, no. But this is 1950s gender politics at play here. Sure. Sure. And Jimmy's like, not yet, not yet. You gotta wait. He looks up the salesman's phone number. He calls him. Meanwhile, Miss Lonely Heart's lowering her blinds.

But Jimmy calls Lars. He picks up. He tells him, like, I need to know where your wife is. Like, meet me at the Albert Hotel. Like, I know you did something with her. Like, we need to settle the estate of your late wife. Basically, he's saying, like, I know you killed her. Meet me at this hotel, I guess, so you can, like, give me money or something. I don't really know what the actual plan is, would be the plan if this was actually happening.

Anyway, Lars is like freaked out and is like, I don't know what you're talking about, but puts on his coat and leaves. He's gone. So Stella and Grace Kelly run downstairs. They go to dig under the flowers. And meanwhile, Jimmy Stewart calls the detective, but he's not at home. The babysitter answers. And he's like, just tell him that I have quite a surprise for him when he comes home. Because I guess he's convinced they're going to find the wedding ring. Meanwhile, Miss Lonely Heart goes over to her desk and starts writing a letter. Oh, God. Because Stella was the one who was like, I think that she might be, we need to call the police because I think she might be trying to kill herself.

And he's like, no, she's not. And then she's writing the letter. And he goes, yeah, Stella was wrong. She's fine. It's like she's writing her suicide. Nobody writes a letter before they do that. What are you fucking talking about, dude? So they're digging under the flowers, but they're not finding anything.

They don't find anything. And so the nurse starts to run back to the apartment. But Grace Kelly is like, this is my chance. And she goes and she climbs up the fire escape and she climbs into Lars's apartment. Oh, no. And Jeff is like, no, don't do that. Like, fuck no. Fuck no. No. Um, but no. Fuck no. No. But she does it anyway. Also, it's just so funny that like we've established that all of us can see into the courtyard and like frequently come out to the courtyard to talk to each other. So we're, there's.

People can see you. There's gotta be somebody else who sees you climb the fire escape and go into somebody else's apartment. Also, people have definitely noticed this dude literally watching them with binoculars all day, every day for eight weeks. Anyway, so she's looking through the apartment. She finds the handbag. She goes through the handbag, but she shows it's empty. There's nothing in there. And just then, Miss Lonely Heart looks like she's about to go take the medicine. And so the nurse is like, call the police right now. Call the police right now. We need help. So he calls the police. And as he's calling the police, Ms. Lonely Heart hears the piano music, the new piano music that the musician has been playing, that he's been working on. And she stops and she listens to the music and she comes to the window and she just looks like

new life has been given to her, basically. The power of music. The power of music. Yeah, I can't relate. But he's on the phone to the police already. And luckily he is because guess who's coming back? The salesman. So the salesman's coming back.

Grace Kelly's in that apartment. So he says, there's a man assaulting a woman at our know, our address. He tells the police that come immediately come immediately Salesman comes in she tries to hide He like finds her immediately She starts screaming jeff jeff. She's like screaming jeff and he's like assaulting her like punching her And grabbing her whoa and like pushing her down on the couch. And she's like screaming and screaming. And Jeff and the nurse are just like sitting there.

Like we, they can't do anything. Like what the fuck are we supposed to do? We can't do anything. Go out into the courtyard and yell for your neighbor. We've learned that you can do that. Just like yell. Yeah.

Do something. He does not. Anything. He does not. We, yeah. Do something. He does nothing. He does nothing. We, Jeff. But luckily the police come really quickly. So the police come and we see them knock on the door. We see them come in.

Jeff and Stella are like, she's going to get arrested for breaking and entering. What the hell is going on? Like she's going to be taken to jail. And just then we see Grace Kelly put her hands behind her back and she has a ring on her hand and she points to it. And Jimmy Stewart's like, oh my God, she got the ring. She got the ring. But the salesman sees her do it. He sees her pointing at the ring and then he looks across the way and he looks like right at Jimmy Stewart. Oh boy. This movie is doing such a good job of making me not sure

what's going on. And so Grace Kelly gets taken away by the police and Stella and him are like, okay, what's the bail money for breaking and entering? I think it's like $350. Like, I have this much money. You have this much money. Like, look in Grace's handbag. Like, how much money does she have? And Stella, like, takes as much money as she has and, like, goes to the police station to try to bail her out. Imagine knowing that information offhand.

What's the bail for breaking and entering? $350? Yeah, yeah. Without Googling it? So he calls the detective again again or maybe the detective calls him i can't remember and he's like i need your help she's just been taken to the police station but she found the wedding ring of his wife like the wife is dead you have to trust me you have to believe me now like you have to look into this none of this is like admissible in court though

right yeah i feel like probably you can't break into someone's house without a warrant and find evidence and then use it in court. And also like the police not concerned that he beat the shit out of a woman. Like even if she entered his apartment, he'd fucking beat her up. I know. Well, I don't think they care about that. No, I don't think they care. I feel like can't you still stand your ground? Technically kill somebody

that comes into your apartment? In certain places, yeah. Yeah. So... I just feel like I'd be shocked by the instinct, you know? They hang up and then the phone rings again right away

and he picks it up again and he says, I think Thorwald's left. I don't see him. But then there's no one on the other end of the line. It's just quiet. And he's looking over think Thorwald's left. I don't see him. But then there's no one on the other end of the line. It's just quiet. And he's looking over at Thorwald's apartment.

It's dark. No one seems to be there. It's nighttime, mind you. And they've turned off all the lights in his apartment so that no one could see him. So it's completely dark. And he hangs up the phone and is like, oh, like, oh, fuck. And it's quiet for a second. And then he hears a bang, a door close. And he starts hearing footsteps. Oh, boy. Heavy footsteps. He wheelchairs over to the door, but his front door is up some stairs.

Oh, Jesus. So he can't lock it, basically. He tries to lock it, but he can't. Oh, no. Is Stella not there anymore? No, she went to the police station. Oh, no. And so he's just like a sitting duck. He's just sitting there. And he grabs a flashbulb. He grabs like a big flashbulb. And so he's hearing footsteps coming upstairs.

He's looking scared to death. And there's a light under the door, his front door where the hallway is. And he sees the light go off. And then the door cracks open and it's Lars. And he's a huge dude. He's like a big fucking dude. And he's like standing on the top of the staircase and it's completely dark and all you can see are just his eyes.

And that's it. And he says, what do you want from me? Do you want money? I don't have any money. And Jimmy Stewart isn't saying anything. He's like, say something. And Jimmy Stewart is not saying anything. And he's like, give me the ring back. And Jimmy Stewart's like, no. And he goes, tell her to bring it back. And he goes, the police already have it. So he starts walking towards him. But every few steps, Jimmy Stewart flashes the flashbulb at him and it's

this really long sequence this is where like he flashes from saw two or um uh signs of the lambs yeah so he flashes it and then the camera goes red like the full film goes red and then the man you see him like rub his eyes and then like keep walking. And then another flash and like everything goes red and you see him like cover his eyes. And that happens like five times. And it gives him enough time that then he sees the detective coming back. And the detective has Grace Kelly. So he's like gotten her from the police station already and And like they've come back and he screams for them. And just as he starts screaming for them, Lars comes and attacks him.

Oh, my God. Fully attacks him. And it's interesting then. I'll have the tables have turned. up. So like you see him like fling him out of the wheelchair. You see like the neighbors hear this and like rush outside. You see him like trying to fight back, but can't really. And he's screaming, he's screaming for help. He's screaming for help. And then Lars starts to hang him out of the window, like full on hanging him out of the window. What floor are we on? Maybe like the third floor, I guess. And the detective yells at a cop to like, he's like, throw me your gun!

So he like throws him his gun and... That seems crazy. I know. He's like about to like try to shoot them, or shoot Lars, obviously. But then the police like break into the apartment and they grab Lars. But Lars drops Jimmy Stewart. But then the police break into the apartment and they grab Lars. But Lars drops Jimmy

Stewart. But then the detective saves him. Somehow cushions his fall. But he definitely has a bad fall. But he's alive. And a broken leg. Yeah, okay. And the detective is like,

I'm sorry. And then Grace Kelly runs over and cradles his head Yeah, okay. detectives who are upstairs who have Lars, they're like, he's about to take us on a tour of the East River. And then Stella says to the detective, like, what was buried in the garden? So they ask Lars, they ask the police to ask him that, I guess. And then the police say, uh, the dog got it too inquisitive, so he dug it up, but it's in a hat box. Want to look? So we can only guess what that means. She goes, no, I don't want to look. But they don't say what it is. But whatever it is, it's in a hat box. So her head? Like, I don't fucking know. Her hand? Why would it just be one body part? Why? I don't know. Why would he just do that? That doesn't make any sense to me, but that's just what they say. What's in the box? There's so many references to this film.

Yeah. This film is referencing Seven. And so he did it. So he did murder his wife. I really thought the entire film that he didn't murder his wife. I thought that was the whole thing because, and I realized why I thought that like almost all of my cultural knowledge there's a Simpsons episode which is referencing Rear Window and it's Bart breaks his leg and thinks that Ned Flanders has killed his wife and he like goes crazy but then it ends up that he didn't kill his wife that he was just going crazy in his room all summer because he broke his leg yeah yeah yeah and so I was like I know how this one is what happened in rear... I know how this one ends. Exactly. I've seen this episode of The Simpsons.

Well, it also... It seemed like the scary thing was going to be... That he went crazy alone. Yeah, and like what chaos he wrought by thinking that something bad had happened. That's what I thought too. Like, I thought he was going to accidentally kill Grace Kelly. But I guess the moral is

you should spy on your neighbors. Yeah. Surveil the cats in your neighborhood it's all good yeah spy on people and also men are always right yes exactly white men are always right and they can be as mean as they want as long as they're right their legs can smell as bad as they want as long as they're right. So we cut to like, I don't know, a few days have passed. It's the morning time. We see, you know, the neighborhood again. Miss Lonely Heart's now over at the Piano Man's apartment. She's listening to him play.

They're painting the Thorwald's apartment. And we see Jeff now has two casts on both legs. I was going to say, I feel like that fall is going to extend his healing time. Let me give him some time to think about if he might like a new kind of life with Grace Kelly. And Grace Kelly is watching him nap. She's reading a book on the Himalayas. She sees that he's asleep. She puts the book down and she picks up a fashion magazine. And that's the end of the film. Wow. Wowie. It was fun. It was honestly fun.

That is fun. I want to see it. It's really good. It's a good visual film. It's a good one to actually see with your own eyes. Did you ever catch Alfred Hitchcock in it? He's like usually in all of his movies. Yes. For a little cameo. He is in it. He's in the piano man's apartment fixing a clock at one point. Nice.

There's a lot of stuff that happens with the neighbors that I just left out because it's like, there's really no point in telling you about all the weird little asides. But that's one reason to watch the movie is because it's very like textured. I think that's one way to think about it. Like it's almost like watching a play, but a really good play. So yeah, that's it. Wow.

Rear window. It's a banger. Henley's second favorite movie. Wow. Dune II and Rear Window. So Forgetting Sarah Marshall has been demoted to third place? Oh, yeah. Forgetting Sarah Marshall, third place now. And like, where does Challengers factor in? Because...

And then What Lies Beneath, and then Challengers. Wow. Top five. All right, I'll accept a top five. I'll accept a top five. It's wrong, but I'll accept it. I will say one thing about Challengers that threw me off, which I know is only part of of the film but Zendaya trying to be like a 30 year old woman yeah I was like you're like 18 to me like it's weird to see you playing a woman with like I think that's the thing that she struggles with is being cast as an adult that makes but wasn't she only like 23 right now I think she's 27 oh she is 27 28 oh okay, 27, 28. Oh, okay. She just looks like a baby.

I bought it. I bought it. I mean... She's 27, yeah. Okay. Okay. Fair. Fair.

Playing 32? It's not so crazy. No, it's not. I just really like... But she just really does look young, and she always plays young. It was... Yes. I'm used to seeing her as Rue.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, to be fair, I have not seen... Euphoria. Euphoria. Yeah. seeing her with like a six-year-old child is just i was like wait what this is confusing yeah but and you thought that child was about six or seven i know probably like five i don't actually know five or six we didn't really see a lot of the kid we didn't see a lot of the kid i thought that they were

going to try to imply that that kid was not his kid. I think it's intentionally vague. I'm thinking about the timeline. She could be eight years old, though. That seemed a little old. Oh, right. Yeah. Joel had the same. Joel had the same note. I think she could have been seven. She could have been seven. Pregnancy takes nine months, baby. She could have been seven. Could have been seven. Interesting. I didn't think about that. Anyway, thank you guys for going on this journey with me. I love you think about that. Anyway, thank you guys for going on this journey with me. I love you. Thank you, Henley.

Oh my God, thank you, Henley. What a great job you have done for us. And you only could have done a great job because you're hot. So everything you do is great. Yeah, I agree. I should have done the whole thing with a mid-Atlantic accent. As it would have been perfect. And I'll work on that for next time.

Next time. Rear window too. Rear window too. And is Disturb and is disturb disturbia that's what it's called yes is it a remake or is it just it's a like inspired by inspired by i think it's just yeah the same plot updated to be proud i'm sure there's internet in that version. There might be use of internet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I did read that the writers of Rear Window, or the estate of the writers of Rear Window, sued the company for making Disturbia for not including them.

And they lost. Interesting. Gary and Moss is in it. Yeah, I've never seen it, obviously. This also reminded me of my favorite podcast episode of it's a show called Love and Radio. They played it on This American Life, this little like short episode. And it's about a woman who lives in New York and watches her neighbors as they go through a very difficult time. And it is a really emotional episode.

I really cry every time. It's called The Living Room by Love and Radio. If anybody wants to check that out, it's really good. Okay. I don't want to cry. Yeah. It's maybe not for you, but it is. I told you that Joel and I watched The Last Samurai last night.

We finally watched The Last Samurai and it made me cry and I was not expecting that. And for a little bit, I was mad at Joel. Yeah. I got over it. Wow. We did it. Alright. So do you guys want to try to do a mid-atlantic accent yeah yeah see what do they say what do they say in those movies i'll go in the apartment uh

what's his name jeff jeff watch me i'll go over there i'll investigate i like right i like right i'll go anywhere i'll do anything i'm that kind anything. I'm that kind of girl. I'm that kind of girl. Oh, you're too stubborn to argue with. A woman never goes anywhere without a handbag. She needs her handbag. A woman is nothing without a handbag. Not that I'm losing it. A woman is a handbag.

Women, see, they're nothing but jewelry and handbags and makeup. It's tough. It's tough. I'm going to work on it more. It's tough. It's tough. I'm going to work on it more. It's tough. But I'll try to do my best. I'll try to do my best mid-Atlantic accent. Okay.

Let's hear it, Henley. You got this. That made me so nervous. Wait, let me think. Okay. From all of us here at Too Scary Didn't Watch. That was terrible. Okay, you guys have to do it goodbye see why see goodbye goodbye i love a funny goodbye oh i love a funny exit line

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