Review
Stranger Eyes opens like a thriller: a couple's daughter vanishes, and a mysterious DVD—filled with voyeuristic footage—appears on their doorstep. As more DVDs arrive, each revealing intimate glimpses into their private family life, suspicion falls on the "DVD deliverer." Together with police, the couple launches into a frantic search. But the film slowly peels back its thriller facade to reveal a deeper, more unsettling core: the omnipresent "modern gaze" that shapes contemporary life. This film, in essence, is a deep reflection on the modern gaze represented by the all-seeing CCTV everywhere. Following the characters Junyang, Peiying, and the enigmatic Wu, the story explores the murky territory of scopophilia, voyeurism, exhibitionism, and the power dynamics embedded in the act of gazing. This film is directed by Singaporean filmmaker Yeo Siew Hua, who won the Golden Leopard at Locarno in 2018 with A Land Imagined. (MOON Seok)
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