The Lives of Others

The Lives of Others
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The Lives of Others
According to Shohini Chaudhuri (2014), the controlling gaze in film is always male. This means that people watching the film are always encouraged to relate with the look of the male hero and to make the heroine a passive object of erotic spectacle (Chaudhuri, 2014). This concept of the ‘male gaze’ is prevalent in numerous films and is especially pronounced in the 2006 movie The Lives of Others.
The ‘male gaze’ as Chaudhuri calls it brings about a different viewing objective for both men and women. For any man watching the movie, the thing that would come out is Wiesler’s courage in trying to help out Dreyman. Through the progression of the film, the male viewer will notice how Wiesler despite the lurking danger of being found out by his superiors embarks o...