Mr. Thorwald's neighborhood

Rear Window

(1954)

Unusual among Hitchcock's films for posing moral and ethical questions that might actually pertain to viewers' lives (as opposed to "should you kill your spouse and chop the body up into small pieces?"): where does curiosity become voyeurism? is voyeurism in service of right still creepy? and how much right does one half of a couple to make the other half change? Thankfully, none of these questions gets a definitive answer (though the film does come down, if without much gusto, on the side of not killing and dismembering one's spouse).