him so or there would be a family dinner with them. The scene fades to Ben driving Elaine reckless on the freeway like when Chaplin drove crazy in his drunk friend’s car in City Lights. Elaine starts to ask Ben questions about his life. He comes up with one word or quick replies back. Ben does his best to make her not like him even by taking her inside a gentlemen’s club. With the camera angle showing the back of Ben’s head and focusing on the striper behind Elaine in the background. The audience can know that he’s doing his best to ignore Elaine and put his awareness to the striper. The movie Experiment in Terror shows similar camera work in the beginning as it focused on the criminal’s body from behind but the victim in the background during
