Loved this. Especially about the line about "putting an emphasis on emotional attraction." The way the show uses composition, camera angles, framing, and OFCOURSE 4th wall breaks to be Feminist is so beautiful.
Great vid, but I believe it craves further explication. although I was quite familiar with the idea of the female gaze I never quite thought of analyzing the 'hot priest' character in that way, which I think is a very clever and once noticed an immediately obvious and cruical observation, which should be a central focus of any real analysis of the character (which I would say is the mark of any astute observation). While I believe the choice of this scene specificaly to be wise, I think that the evidence and the argument expounding upon it is a rather weak one, missing an, I hold, cruical point to which I conjecture the theory lends most of it's strength , that is, showing how it is that the pathology in and reduction of (much like one would with the male version) the male through said gaze inhibits from the development and engagement of and with the drama, providing a shallower interpretation for the interplay of its enactment. Writing this and coming to think of it, I would reason that Waller-Bridge does quite cleaverly contend with the implication of the female gaze through the unveiling of plot, even criticizing Fleabag, being both the character and the story itself (in this omniscient back-handed fashion, being the writer of course) for her portrayal of the priest, the ending being this kind of cathartic realization that the sin of her irony (being viewing herself in this '3rd person') was to not engage with the character as itself but with her depiction of said charcter, leading to her loss and the ending as it played out (a rather common interpretation of the ending, now looked upon using the female gaze and how Waller-Bridge contends with her charcter [ the story itself] being even a bit, I would say, 'chauvinistic'[?]; anyway, think I made my point) Very cool vid :)
But this is an example of two people talking and sharing a connection. Of course it would be different to glancing at someone's toned body at the gym. How's about this scene instead? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Yxna1QaOvbk.htmlsi=PuqzBSy4kK7Z3JuM
