It's not just the camera that you can't see

"Hidden Camera" is a film in which, while we are immersed in the film's narrative, we are surprised to be disturbed by bits and pieces of what could be described as a documentary. These fragments are only basic, independent images when we watch them alone, but when they are embedded in the narrative structure, ambiguity and confusion arise. The audience wandered impatiently in the slightly boring plot, but the candidly filmed documentary-like images surprised them, creating a curiosity of "what the hell is going on?" Walking through the maze, only to find that the director did not give an answer in the end. So the audience can only comfort themselves that it doesn't matter what happened to these videotapes, and the alienation and indifference of modern people reflected in the film is the most valuable theme. The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze once put forward the term "sensory motor mechanism", which refers to the fact that ordinary people will automatically incorporate images into the familiar thinking structure when watching movies. This motor mechanism is often seen in mainstream commercial movies. will be stimulated. "Hidden Camera" completely interferes with this mechanism. This interference is mainly reflected in the simultaneous appearance of "past and present" on the screen: a documentary image of the past is accompanied by a narration of the parties in the narrative reality. In the following time, we have been traveling back and forth between the past and reality without warning, like riding a roller coaster, not knowing what will happen next, maybe finally find a murderer? It is also possible that Sadako will suddenly crawl out of a certain video. Of course, we can see Haneke's efforts in showing and discussing the results of the collision of the two eternal propositions of "action and representation" and "existence" from the film, and trying to give an answer. : Existence is always there, but our eyes do not let us see all. It's not just the protagonist who can't see the camera, how have we, the audience, ever seen it? There is so much that the film wants to express, it is hard to describe. No matter how you evaluate it, Haneke at least does a good job of interpreting the temporal nature of the film, which is always in the past and always in the present.

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