Way of Seeing?

Darron 2022-01-14 08:02:06

First of all, I believe that millions of people say that the story of this movie is terrible about "love" (of course I also complained about this while watching it),

but if you return to this Faces in the Crowd, you will find this The title, isn't it echoing with John Berger-Way of Seeing?

"Individual and Mass", " Way of Seeing ".

How do you recognize a person?

Face, voice, behavior, all kinds of different ways.

But if we put a center on "vision".

Berger said: "Watching precedes language." We saw this person (first impression) before hearing his voice or even his actions.

Isn't the human face the way we objectively observe (or even recognize) each other? The

heroine's "face blindness" completely subverts this way of viewing.

Movies... viewers

1. If people we are familiar with are presented differently every time, and you can't even recognize your own face, how much will that affect our definition of watching?

2. Anna refers to the lack of human beings Face recognition ability, but maintain the same discriminative power of one's own things. Is this kind of viewing, or is it a complete viewing?

((You can refute that although Anna can't recognize the face, but she can't recognize the sound.
I think this is probably the biggest blind spot of the work.))

Viewer. .... Movie

3. (The mentality of the viewer), the mental journey in watching the movie is that at the beginning, we may subconsciously know that Lan is the murderer, but while watching, we keep avoiding what we see fact.

4. Features (the detective shaves off the beard) is also a major focus of this work. If the features we recognize no longer exist, is this person still the same person to you? (In terms of vision)

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Extended Reading

Faces in the Crowd quotes

  • Dr. Langenkamp: What's the first thing you look at in a man after his face?

    Anna Marchant: My friends and I look at his butt.

    Dr. Langenkamp: [laughs] Well what else is there to look at.

  • Anna Marchant: [pondering engagement ring] After I squeeze out a couple of rug rats, or buy some old money pit, then slide contentedly off into senility.