I remember when I was crazy about watching VCD/DVD of various foreign films in the past few years, I was deeply impressed by Sharon Stone and William Baldwin's "Peep" ("Sliver" 1993). The morbid coveting and visually stimulating images are the best interpretation of the crazy voyeur.
In fact, everyone is curious about the lives of others and has a desire to understand. This is also the reason why there are so many short talks among the parents. There is an old saying: Whoever does not speak in front of him will not be said behind his back. Everyone's life is a drama, a great condiment for others. Therefore, personal privacy is increasingly being valued. Everyone is doing everything possible to inquire about other people's income, marital status, position and family property, and use various means to conceal their height, income, age, and extramarital affairs.
People with serious voyeurism can use all means to obtain all the information of the subject, from life to business, from work to emotions, he/she can directly inquire, click sideways, and even search for information in QQ, MSN, E-MAIL, and so on.
Two kinds of people are the most typical. One is the mother. Nowadays, children generally respond that the relationship with the mother is not handled well. The mother not only always inquires about the child’s school situation, grades, making friends, but also checks the child’s diary. This is also a peeping psychological response. . She hopes to control the child and shape him/her according to her own desires. She didn't know how her actions with the label of "love" actually hurt the child's self-esteem and independence.
Another kind is that among lovers or spouses, one partner has a pathologically possessive desire for the other party and must find out everything until the other party is completely bored and leaves. Like "Don't Talk to Strangers" is an extreme portrayal.
This involves the issue of controlling others. If a person cannot control his/her life and emotions, he/she hopes to enrich himself by understanding all aspects of the person he/she is interested in, so that he/she will not be so boring and not crazy. In a sense, when he/she is doing these things, he/she has fallen into a certain crazy state. He/she will hint to himself and prove that what he/she is doing is correct, logical, and of course unconscious. .
I often encounter people in my life who have a strong interest in inquiring about the details of other people's lives. He/she will tirelessly ask others what they did after get off work, who they were with, what they said, and what they did. In fact, these lives have nothing to do with him/her, and the comfort he/she gets after knowing it is minimal, but he/she still can't help asking and inquiring every time. They feel that if they ask the ins and outs of things clearly, they are in control of their lives. If the interviewee is perfunctory or evasive, it will also arouse their strong dissatisfaction and anger, because they will feel that their sincere greetings have not been rewarded. However, this is not the case, because his/her curiosity has developed into a voyeuristic psychology of other people's lives.
With the rapid popularity of the Internet, some people with strong voyeuristic psychology can get satisfaction on the Internet. He/she can watch photos of netizens through videos and watch other people's lives through blogs. You can even install a pinhole camera to take a peek, just like the male protagonist in the movie "Peeping".
Many perverted killers start from voyeurism, and when the morbidity intensifies, they will further develop into harassment and even crime. There is a slowly developing process in the middle, but the beginning is all peeping into the private lives of beautiful girls.
For a popular entertainment star, the whole society wants to know all aspects of his/her life. The more unknown life is, the more sensational it is, and the scandal is the headline. The media is obliged to take on the arduous mission and send a team of puppies to chase and fight indiscriminately to satisfy everyone's hobby of voyeurism.
London fog on May 17, 2005
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