Vertigo
I recently watched Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, this movie is said to be one of his best. But it is a perfect example of male gaze and voyeurism but can also be seen as a new one as well. The main character of this film literally stalks a girl for days on end as his detective “job�. Throughout the whole film no one sees anything really wrong with it either. But the film itself plays on this idea of male gaze by switches sides and showing how everyone desires to watch others and be watched in some kind of way. They show this through a unique love triangle where one girl isn’t being noticed and wants to be the object of his lust or “watched�. The other woman knows she is being watched and ends up falling in love with her watcher/stalker. The whole movie leads us to see the main stalker as he focuses all his energy to recreate his love for another women onto his new girlfriend by dressing her in all the same clothes and forcing her to do the same things. Giving us new view of the gaze and voyeurism as human nature and only natural to some extent. The movie doesn’t agree with the objectification of women it shows how it is human nature to want to be desired in one way or another. So the movie puts names and non-cliché characters to the people being watched to create more then just lustfull feelings towards them. All around this movie is pretty good, even it if does have its stalker/misogynistic moments.