I See You Watching review – the male gaze in full effect

Gilded Balloon, EdinburghAn authoritarian patrols the auditorium barking contradictory commands at a wannabe star in Blind Faith’s uncomfortable showThe male gaze is often talked of as a passive thing: a point of view, influencing the subconscious choices of film-makers, rather than an active agenda. Not so in I See You Watching. Here, the male view – in particular the male view of women – is insistent, demanding, explicit.Playing a figure of authoritarian power, actor David Calvitto barks out commands: he wants his women to be pretty, demure, sluttish, compliant, hard-working, domestic, worldly, Madonna and whore. He could be running an audition with a keen eye for what the market demands or, more likely, he could be articulating base male desires. Continue reading...

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