Body Double (1984)
What possessed me to watch Brian DePalma's movie " Body Double " the other night I really can't say. I'm a fan of DePalma's and I do remember always laughing at his tributes to Hitchcock in his films. "Body Double" is a film that takes strongly from Hitchcock's " Vertigo " and " Rear Window ", and DePalma does it brilliantly. Roger Ebert said it best in the beginning of his review of the film that it bears repeating: " Body Double " is an exhilarating exercise in pure filmmaking, a thriller in the Hitchcock tradition in which there's no particular point except that the hero is flawed, weak, and in terrible danger -- and we identify with him completely. The movie is so cleverly constructed, with the emphasis on visual storytelling rather than dialogue, that we are neither faster nor slower than the hero as he gradually figures out the scheme that has entrapped him. And the casting of a Hitchcockian average guy als...