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see and be seen
Assunta 2022-04-21 09:02:13
Throw away the so-called profound thesis and don't think about it. You can see the hint just from the title. This is a photographic work about seeing and being seen. The candid camera hidden in the plot is actually intentionally replaced by a public/audience gaze in the end. The audience is unknowingly and gradually put into the position of the watcher/critic, to think and feel the family and the man they see. If I wasn't French and I wasn't familiar with that period of French history, I'm afraid those two flashback shots that were supposed to evoke some deep hidden secrets in the audience wouldn't have resonated with me, for example. So it doesn't feel creepy at all. I simply take it as a documentary on the life, communication, decoration, and daily routine of the French middle class. I also like it.
Extended Reading
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Georges Laurent: Isn't it lonely, if you can't go out?
Georges's Mom: Why? Are you less lonely because you can sit in the garden? Do you feel less lonely in the metro than at home? Well then! Anyway, I have my family friend... with remote control. Whenever they annoy me, I just shut them up.