Wednesday, January 23, 2013

The movie "The Gaze" was mainly about exploiting the different types of Gazes. The movie begins with the Spectator Gaze because it feels as if we are looking through a window and observing what each neighbor is doing. After about 20-30 secs in we in fact find out that it is the Intra Diegetic Gaze instead when we see the man looking through his window.. Throughout the whole movie this man Jeffrey goes unnoticed and we the audience get to witness how he is a "peeping tom" and hasn't got caught yet. Throughout his viewing he pays a certain attention to his foreign neighbor. He notices that the man and his wife have been arguing a lot and the man leaves at awkward times at night with a briefcase. When I first saw this I thought that the viewer was crazy and was just overreacting because he was bored and had nothing else to do. But then throughout the film we notice that the mans wife is gone; What was so dramatic about this was the fact that she was sick and couldn't get out of bed. So the main character started snooping a little deeper by getting his girlfriend to go in the Foreign mans house. Things went bad for the woman as the man entered his house and found her, he almost strangled her to death but the police saved her right on time. This was also an important scene because the Foreign man was the first person to notice Jeffery and went to go pay him a visit. Long story short Jeffery still Gazes through his window at the end of the movie.

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