This article concentrates on an analysis of the apartment plot, with its brief insights on the relation of the space and film being highly profound.
A place as an apartment serves the function of social space since space can shape one’s “experience, worldview and opportunity”. In this article, the apartment plot regarded as a specific genre goes beyond the conventional rule of being a background setting. However, it motivates actions and practices – “works in terms of encounter and porousness or produces a philosophy of urbanism by imaging the urban itself”. Not only it brings the permeability that satisfies voyeurism and eavesdropping to anonymous apartment life, which it does evoke dramatic narratives necessary to the scenario, but also project identities in terms of gender, race, ethnicity and class deprived of temporality.
Film spectatorship involves a kind of dwelling, and the dwelling experience can be a form of tourism. When space is practised as the film is moving forward in which the “tourists” embed themselves in the story from outsiders to insiders, they become integrated into the exotic setting, or a familiar place.
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Chan Ue Yin Monique
A thoughtful and brilliant reflection on WOJCIK’s text with de Certeau’s notion of space and place. Well done!