"Los Voyeristas" on Amazon Prime: Looks with folds

The voyeurists - 5 points

The voyeurs, United States, 2021

Direction and screenplay: Michael Mohan

Duration: 120 minutes

Intrepretes: Sydney Sweeney, Justice Smith, Ben Hardy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Katharine King So.

Premiere: Available on the Amazon Prime Video platform.

The tracking shot advances gently along a street towards the ochava, where there is a lingerie store. He goes through the shop window, in the background of which the half-open curtains of a fitting room reveal the body of a woman in underwear looking at herself in the mirror. The girl notices the intrusion and, looking at the camera, closes the curtains with an offended gesture. Right away, a cloying version of the Billy Idol classic “Eyes without a Face” plays in the title sequence of The Voyeurs, over a succession of detailed shots of the iris, pupils, sclerae, eyelids and eyelashes. The intention is clear: to make it clear that not only the look, but the eyes of those who look at it will be very important in the development of this film. And above all, no one is free to give in to the temptation of going around spying on the lives of others. Especially you, the viewer.

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What the film directed by Michael Mohan proposes is a game of chained glances that knows where it begins but not where it ends. The first link corresponds to Pippa and Tom, who have just moved in to begin the experience of living as a couple. The film presents them with the candor of youth, sure of being condemned to a destiny of eternal happiness. The first night, while dining in the dark, they discover that they can see everything that happens in the apartment across the street, whose glass surface offers them the unexpected show of real life. There, another young couple who seem to be taken from an advertisement have sex, while the protagonists wonder if it is okay to keep watching. Although Tom seems the most interested at first, it will be Pippa who one day shows up with a pair of binoculars and they too end up making love while spying.

Intrigued by the lives of others, Pippa and Tom crash a costume party to rig a microphone so they can hear as well as see. And what they discover is thatnot all that glitters is gold. At the same time, the beautiful neighbor visits the optician where Pippa works to get a pair of glasses and invites her for coffee. Pippa believes that it is a good opportunity to reveal to her the secrets that her husband hides from her.

With obvious references to Brian De Palma's Body Double (and from there to Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window), The Voyeurs is also a tale full of folds. A mirror maze where it is difficult to distinguish the real image from its reflection. As in De Palma's film, here too eroticism and desire are part of the equation, making the parallels more evident. However, the turn taken by The Voyeurs in its last third turns out to be more implausible than unexpected, causing the film's dilemma, more moralistic than moral, to shift from mere curiosity to a very different matter, so questionable. like pulling the hair out.

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