Word: voyeur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with drink and drugs like so many of his movies' protagonists. Yet his films, such as Ali and The Marriage of Maria Braun, were models of brisk precision (they had to be: he made 40 or so in only 13 years), and his camera was a most fastidious voyeur, observing every ruction of sexual violence with sympathy at a distance. Döblin and Fassbinder were a perfect book-and-movie match, and the young director knew it. He read Berlin Alexanderplatz as a boy of 15, reread it at 20, and realized that "an enormous part of myself...
...single flash of color in the black-and-white Spellbound, as the pistol of the suicidal villain flares red; the wicked eroticism of Janet Leigh's shower scene in Psycho, a film that, as Spoto points out, takes pains to make the viewer queasily aware of being a voyeur. Hitchcock's final obsession was secretiveness, but he has been well served by a knowledgeable and revealing biography...
...rises to a peak of pure hate, does what it does, then slinks away, its energy spent. Perhaps every mob commits rape in a way. Anybody who has ever seen a mob in action senses its latent sexuality-the collective panting, the empty ecstasy. Even at the outskirts, the voyeur participates. Eventually he may run or protest, but for at least one long moment he is helpless to move...
JANET MALCOLM HANDLES these questions deftly. If, as Aaron Green contends, analysts are voyeurs "at the window watching what's going on in the bedroom, getting very excited, but not jumping into the fray," then Malcolm gives a solid boost to anyone who wants to be a meta-voyeur--someone to peep in on the bedroom and the first voyeur too. She falters only once, rambling through several pages of some sort of amateur Jungian explanation of Freud's motivations for giving a particular patient pseudonym. Except for this humorously obsessional bit of lay analysis, Malcolm has an intelligent authorial...
...eager to display themselves so ruthlessly for millions, and porno stars are unlikely to be convincing in a serious film's nonsex scenes. Audiences may have trouble shifting gears when a character they believe in suddenly impersonates a stag-reel stud. Suspension of disbelief breaks down, viewer becomes voyeur...