This text examines the voyeuristic behavour as shown in the film and how it varies as time goes. ”Male gaze”, as referred in the text, can be inferred superficially as the male voyeur looking into the lifes of the female flaneur. This sentence actually means that female are often materialized in early films in 1950s. An example can be the Rear Window, where Jeff uses his binocular to stock the behaviours of his neighbour. As voyeuring requires objects or equipment with lens, it is natural to come to our mind that we, ourselves, are also voyeuring the lifes of the protagonist in the film while we are sitting in the cinema, as directed by the lens and scenes in the movie. The situations shown in the film follows the technological advance in the reality, of which the equipment of voyeur has changed to surveiliance cameras in Silver(1993). Surely, from the connection to reality, the power of voyeur towards a city and its practitioner is increasing with that. While it offers pleasure and esctasy to a person, how should we face such kind of behaviour in our urban daily life? It is worthy for much of our thoughs.
Tsang Ka Ho, 3035924310