Rear Window

Thoughts about the movie Rear Window (1954)

It is interesting to be reminded that the issue of surveillance has been around for so long. The technologies advance but the basic concepts are quite similar. Is it ethical for one to spy on ones fellow human beings and to judge them by what they infer from the surveillance data that they collect? I was also interested in seeing that they had apartment buildings so close together even back in the 50’s. For some reason I thought that this was a more recent phenomena. The movie makes me wonder how the same type of scenario would play out today. Instead of just watching ones neighbor one could record everything he sees because the cost of technology is so cheap. It makes you want to keep your blinds closed permanently if you live in a downtown condo. It makes me a little paranoid of what “neighbors” could have seen and recorded during the time that I did live in a downtown condo.