In this essay I will provide an analysis of the spectatorial procedures at work in the sequence from let the right one in, where Oscar watches Ellie changing into his mothers dress. My argument is that Oscar is a twelve year old who is not yet sexual and so his watch is more of an innocent gaze or rather a curious gaze, but the audience sexualizes the scene. For my explanations I will be using the theories of voyeurism and fetishism that Laura Mulvey presents in her article Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. ( M, L. 1989).
Voyeurism according to my understanding is the when you watching someone like an object or image and feeling guilty in the pleasure of watching. Mulvey describes it, as “Peeping Tom, and her definition is the “pleasure in looking using another person as an object of sexual stimulation …show more content…
(M. L. 1989; 59). Instead the audience has sexualized the scene, through the camera movements. Although we see what Oscar sees, the camera specifically shows us her …show more content…
But that is not the case, the case is that Oscar is innocent and the camera is doing all the work. It is doing all the work because you can say that we are with Oscar and we see what he sees, but the camera is the one sexualizing what he is seeing, through the zoom-ins, edits etc. The camera work has turned the pleasure in looking into the active/ male and passive, female. And by that we cannot confirm whether Oscar had sexualized thoughts or rather fantasies on to Ellie. (M, L.
Voyeurism according to my understanding is the when you watching someone like an object or image and feeling guilty in the pleasure of watching. Mulvey describes it, as “Peeping Tom, and her definition is the “pleasure in looking using another person as an object of sexual stimulation …show more content…
(M. L. 1989; 59). Instead the audience has sexualized the scene, through the camera movements. Although we see what Oscar sees, the camera specifically shows us her …show more content…
But that is not the case, the case is that Oscar is innocent and the camera is doing all the work. It is doing all the work because you can say that we are with Oscar and we see what he sees, but the camera is the one sexualizing what he is seeing, through the zoom-ins, edits etc. The camera work has turned the pleasure in looking into the active/ male and passive, female. And by that we cannot confirm whether Oscar had sexualized thoughts or rather fantasies on to Ellie. (M, L.