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This Academy Award winner for Best Live Action Short Film was not at all what I was expecting considering the title and synopsis. In its mere 20 minutes, we feel like we get to know the main character, well played by Dizzia, on a rather personal level - more so than many feature-length motion pictures. She loves her husband and children but is just needing something more outside of her role as wife and mother. Even if it's just the excitement of voyeurism. As I said earlier, this is not what you're probably thinking, and I wouldn't dare ruin the unexpected journey this short film takes. Suffice it to say, at the end, you may find yourself not only surprised but moved. It's nothing groundbreaking or revolutionary, and I won't be thinking about it in the weeks and months ahead, but I enjoyed the time I spent with it, and it succeeds in what it's trying to accomplish. Those who have experienced the overwhelming fatigue of family life will likely find much to appreciate here. And relate to. - Jeff Marshall,.

The Neighbors' Window is a short film which won the 2020 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Inspired by a true story, It tells the story of a middle aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.

The ending is surely gonna shake you up. Watch this beautifully directed Short Film, and I am sure everyone is going to love this as much as I did. Not to be missed

It is just a great film. Because it translates, in wise manner, very simple and precise, fundamental truths. Because it is a splendid perspective about the other. Because it explore basic realities with gentle eye. Because it is just...human in profound sense. Short, a magnificent film about family, neighbor life and about what we see from the window ..

It slightly reminded me of Hitchcock's Rear Window. On one hand, it summarizes life pretty well, one minute you're having crazy wild sex not caring if the whole world is watching and then you blink and voilá, have kids, a house to pay, and your life becames monotonous and boring and it seems you're just waiting for death to arrive. On the other hand, you may seem you have it all, either kids, husband, house or parties, boyfriend and a house) but there's always something missing as nothing can be perfect in this world. I really enjoyed it. the story is good and well written and the cast have very good performances! Congratulations to Curry for yet another Oscar nomination and I recommend you go see it!

Great short film. One of the best I've seen in some time.

I don't get people who say this isn't Oscar worthy it is. What makes this short so good as it's simplistic filming style, that feels very real. The story of how we all thing everything is greener on the other side, yet it's not. This could also be seen as a metaphor for social media, we see only a sample of some one's life from the outside, we see the good. But behind everyone's life story is something sad. I loved how this was done. Ending was not what I had thought was going to happen.

One night a couple spy on their neighbors enthusiastically doing the deed and they're naturally transfixed and amused. Life goes on but the woman can't get her eyes off her seemingly better off nearby residents and armed with binoculars continues her journeys into voyeur land. With the passing of time reality kicks in and the balance of life sobers the woman into awareness and insight. This is an uninspired but watchable short that paces into an anticlimax straining for its moral message. Winner of an academy award this is a spinnable and insignificant finger-tapper in cinematic brevity. "Count your blessings"!

This was pure perfection, the whole time I knew it was only 20 mins and wanted a whole movie. It was a short film at its finest. Beautifully shot and editing. I loved every single minute of it.

Totally deserves the best live action short film Oscar for 2020. Its heartwarming and well made. Beautifully filmed more like with the budget of a regular Hollywood film or just well filmed maybe but it wins your heart instantly with the human story. The ending has a surprise which again is heartwarming rather touching. Just saw it on Amazon Prime.

Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" (1954) is one of the most ingeniously reflexive films ever made, so not surprisingly it's inspired a good number of imitators and deviations. Hitchcock's own "Vertigo" (1958) is something of a continuation and inversion from an allegory for spectatorship to filmmaking. "Blow-Up" (1966) and "The Conversation" (1974) took the formula in different directions, while others, such as "Body Double" (1984), besides other Brian De Palma films, "The 'Burbs" (1989), "Disturbia" (2007) and "Wakefield" (2017), along with this short, "The Neighbors' Window," are obviously similar to the form of "Rear Window."

In "Rear Window," James Stewart's character was our surrogate spectator on screen, who was watching the film-within-the-film that were the activities of his neighbors, as seen through his apartment's rear window. This inner film followed a typical Hitchcockian suspense scenario involving a suspected murder and a blonde in peril, along with various subplots as seen through other neighbors' windows, including the sexual voyeurism in regards to "Miss Torso." "The Neighbors' Window" begins with such voyeurism, too, as the middle-aged parents sit in rapture at the 20-somethings across the way having sex. After that, however, the picture follows more in the line of indie movies obsessed with intimate tales of relationships and familial drama, and it's made by a documentarian, Marshall Curry, who seems to similarly be focused on such personal narratives.

As in "Rear Window," which played around with the cinematic gaze, there's a nice twist here, too. Our main surrogate spectator, the wife and mother, reveals herself to her neighbor's gaze and interjects herself into the film-within-the-film. Moreover, this reveals that she, too, has been an object of the neighbors' gaze; she, too, is observed through windows--is in a film-within-a-film.

A 20 minute story with an impact! The dialog is minimal and the 'neighbors' are never heard. But the emotional impact of what you watch covers a vast spectrum.

This short film is all about envy, emptiness, and empathy. Watch this expertly acted and crafted story. I had tears at the end.

Marshall Curry's Academy Award-winning short "The Neighbors' Window" has drawn comparisons to "Rear Window". One can see the similarities. Overall, my interpretation of it is that what you can see doesn't necessarily tell the whole story. Meanwhile, the protagonists have their own problems to deal with.

This is the first of Curry's works that I've seen. I've been trying to watch a number of Oscar-nominated shorts recently; what else am I supposed to do during the coronavirus quarantine? I've liked every one of these shorts that I've seen, and I have no doubt that you'll like this one.

Maria Dizzia and Greg Keller play a couple who are looking out of their apartment window one evening when they notice some rather raunchy goings on across the street. Rather than close the blinds and mind their own business, they gradually become enthralled in the antics goings on. It's not just the sex - they have three kids of their own so that can hardly be a shock - but their general behaviour and their parties that seems to captivate them until I felt like a rather prurient voyeur. Then, when she is at home on her own one afternoon she witnesses something that compels her to cross the street and meet with her opposite number. It's an interesting premiss but the acting isn't really up to much nor, more importantly, is the writing. It seems determined to contrive disharmony amongst the oglers only for them to rather timidly make up, or to realise that they are both addicted to their doses of this real life stop opera unfolding nearby - latterly with the aid of some binoculars - that reminds them of their own younger lives. This is really quite an unremarkable drama and I guess the moral is - shut your curtains!

Lifetime with all its difficulties, distress, is told in just 20 minutes providing a lifetime lesson so great

Please watch it. You really deserve to see it. All of these only in 20 mins just wow I'm really amazed

I thought this pretty unimpressive to be honest, the technical aspects are basic, the story is predictable and obvious and it seemed pushing and manipulative towards drawing a certain emotional response. It wasn't bad but I'm there there are way more deserving films our there to be awarded and recognized.

This could easily be call Front Window. There are 2 couples living across the street, both without window coverings. The story is told mostly from the viewpoint of a 30-something couple, with twin toddlers and a new baby. A 20-something couple moves into the other apartment, and are having uninhibited sex and parties, which makes the older couple nostalgic about their former days. But as a year passes, the situation changes.

I like and recommend this short, but the missing piece about WHY the situation changed gnaws at me, hence I am giving it only an 8.

Marshall Curry's Oscar winning short is a well crafted film. Beautifully shot, we experience the neighbors' eventful narrative along with Alli (Maria Dizzia), an angry, frustrated voyeur who evolves to experience empathy and compassion. Understated sound design compliments Dizzia's heart felt performance.

Although there is nothing particularly original within the story - the trajectory of the dual narratives is easily perceptible, so no big surprises - the film lingers, heartening you to reflect upon and appreciate those you love.