Voyeurism is something that has always existed. There is pleasure and satisfaction in peeping into other people’s privacy because an unspeakable desire for control is satisfied. With the development of science and technology, this desire has changed from direct observation to scientific means such as monitoring to satisfy it. As the moderation of city, high-rise buildings make things even more elusive. From the top of a tall building, pedestrians look like ants. ‘They write without being able to read it.’ These pedestrians merge with the city without realizing it. There are practitioners walking ‘below’, and there are praepositus supervising from the roof. This shows the complex relationship between humans and space.
Films not only simply show some of the stories that happened in life, but also reflect people’s deep thoughts that they were not even aware of like how do people construct this world and how do they live in it.
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You highlighted the key points of both essays, by mentioning how voyeurism is linked to control and facillitated by technology. Later, you point to the contrast between those ‘below’ and those from ‘above’. I wonder if you intended to draw closer links between the two essays and clarify your final remark about how films may present these.