the film to be able to get the most entertaining experience. I also think a lot about how I would be in the same situations as the characters in a film. While watching the opening of Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, the point of view shot gave me the feeling that I was actually the person attacking the lady. The different point of view shots also gave me this feeling; not only being able to see through the eyes of the man, but also through the “eye” of the camera. It is a scary feeling to feel like you are the one that is about to kill someone, but that is why the film is really good.I agree with Christian Metz in his essay. Story/Discourse: Notes on Two Kinds of Voyeurism. He explains that the "traditional film succeeds in giving the spectator the impression that he is himself that subject," and gets pleasure when there are no “traces of the subject of enunciation." When movie-goers realize things that are used for production in the film, they feel left down.
I have seen Leni Riefenstah
l’s film Triumph of The Will before, but when it was pointed out that you could see the cameras in some of the shots in the film, I felt kind of weird. I didn’t ruin the film, but it did make me realize that the way I was watching film before did not allow me to see things like this. The past couple of movies that I have watched, I have tried to analyze films in a production type of way. I try to pay more attention to how the film was made and why it was done in such a way instead of trying to follow plot and character development. I feel that this also detracts from the full movie watching experience, but I have always been more interested in production that screenwriting.
