Word: voyeurs
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...film is both new and deja-voyeur. It picks up where such landmark films as Last Tango in Paris, The Devils, In the Realm of the Senses, The Last Woman and other sizzling studies of adult sexuality seemed to be leading movies in the '70s. That's not where they went. Hollywood went for the teen-boy market, while European films retreated into a sort of catatonic minimalism. Now--or, rather, finally--directors are again dramatizing, how human beings reveal their power, vulnerability, joy and desperation in their most intimate moments...
...Scouts look confused. Perhaps they are more interested in the electric bottle opener. The Orioles lose after a late rally. The people-watching is as good as the ballgame tonight. Does this make me some kind of voyeur...
...probably guessed by now, I took in more than my fair share of voyeur TV this summer, and they couldn't be more wrong...
Here's the difference. The TV episodes boil 24 hours of bickering housemates into 22 minutes (longer on Wednesday and Saturday nights). The website gives me the full feed, split into four different webcams, which allows me to play junior psychologist and professional voyeur 24 hours a day, seven days a week...
...should have addressed the alternatives to voyeur TV. If people want to see the real world, all they need to do is go outside and walk, run, ride a bike or watch a sunset. Activity is its own reward. VTV is a joke. Turn off your voyeur-TV shows and get a life in the real world. BILL SMART Santa Barbara, Calif...