Wong Kar-wai’s
“In the Mood for Love”…
a film that suffocates my eyes.. heheheh, this isn’t because the film isn’t good, but because of some, majority of the shots that was taken…
If you would watch the film, shots were taken in tight locations.. Tight locations plus tight camera angles = TIGHT>>>heheheh….
Well, aside from this, ther is another noticeable way in presenting the film… If you would watch the film, you would notice that at some angles, a scene begins with the camera zooming out or slowly tilting from the lower part of the woman’s body… this kind of shot shows a picture of the camera caressing the body of the woman…
Honestly, throughout the film I noticed that most of the audience, including me (I had to admit it) was expecting for the two main characters to have a sensual scene or a bed scene. All of us found ourselves expecting for nothing because that particular scene didn’t even happened.. I believe, that the camera shots made us thought of such thing… heheheh…. hahaaaay, thinking of sensual things, if it’s a sin, it’s not ours, it’s the camera’s…hahah
who’s rensponsible?? 
Laura Mulvey has something to say on this matter on her essay Woman as Image, Man as Bearer of the Look…
On her essay, she said a reason wht women and not men. “..the male figure cannot bear the burden of sexual objectification. Man is reluctant to gaze at his exhibitionist like.“
Basically, it was presented in the essay, using psychoanalysis, that it is the camera that makes it does all the work to make the audience to feel either scopophilic instinct or ego libido… Scopophilic instinct is the pleasure of seeing an erotic object out of another person. Ego libido, on the other hand, is “forming identification process.” Both of these could be inculcated to us through mechanisms and formations in a film that is done through many different camera techniques such as its movements and positionings.
Told ya, its tha CAMERAS!!! heheheh
Source of picture:
http://jacquesclouseau.free.fr/uploaded_images/In-The_mood_for_love_Omtown50542-785257.jpg
