"We can of course ask ourselves why anybody would want to follow us and we might even be blessed without the peculiar sensation of being watched, that eerie feeling that makes us look behind our backs, but to be watched and followed is today ubiquitous. Cameras in subways, streets and parks as well as travel cards that archive journeys, credit card data, cell phone records and a multitude of other mechanisms are currently employed to keep us simultaneously safe and observed - although the two need not necessarily be associated.
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There are very few instances where one has the opportunity to follow another human being in enough detail so as to come close to understanding him/her completely, tracking his/her entire life and truly delve into his/her existence especially if one's objective is uncovering truths, whether through his behaviour, possessions or other, and particularly within the realm of recording and documenting. Randomly following someone for only a brief period of time would render notions of voyeurism, the excitement of the chase and perhaps the duality between watching and to be watched. Following for a lengthier period would perhaps constitute espionage, the attempt to extract information to be used. Voyeurism and espionage are differentiated by intent, so much is clear. But both modes of looking create the same friction.
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"Harry Caul, the protagonist in Francis Ford Coppola's film The Conversation is an audio surveillance expert. He is an invader of privacy, the best in the business who - according to the film's poster - can record any conversation between two people, anywhere. He is surveillance personified, listening in on other's conversations and piecing together the indirect puzzles he overhears. His objective is not anchored by choice, he is commissioned to follow those he shadows. Throughout the life of Harry Caul that we have the ability to see, which is the film and in turn his whole life, he follows a young couple and devotes his time to finding out what they have said in a particular place at a particular time, only to report back to the man who has asked him to do so. This makes him encounter throughout the course of the film the delicate question of truth and reality - making him possibly even more apt to study - when he connects the dots wrong, so to speak, and expects an outcome that never occurs. Instead, he witnesses a different consequence, one he never saw coming, blending imagination and the real out of his pursuit and presumptions."
Meriç Algün Ringborg em Location: Date: Time:.
ou o que se pode por vezes chamar tunnel vision.
ou ainda a inacessibilidade do outro.
(dá-se um tiro a um gavião e cai um pardal intrometido. muitas vezes não posso sentir senão desgosto)
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