American Suburbia - showing the light and dark side to this world, sense of mystery
Interesting camera shots - alternating during scenes e.g shot of trees while Jeffery and Sandy are walking creates dark and eerie atmosphere
Very strange and surreal script - 'biggest tongue in the world", "Do you know the chicken walk?"
Jeffery has a dark and introverted side to his personality. Is he being genuine to Sandy? Is he manipulating her thus sexually dominating her? Does she find this sexually arousing?
Soundtrack- Soft eerie wind sounds juxtaposed with up-beat jazz (walking bass) - Dark and Light
After Jeffery sees dorothy his intentions are different from the beginning. He finds her sexually desirable. Does he use the 'mystery' as an excuse to see her.
"I dont know if your a detective or a pervert" - Sandy
Is there a difference? He becomes the voyeur while in the apartment. Makes me think of Hitchcock's Psycho. Bates peering through the hole in the wall to watch Marion undress.
Dorothy is sexually dominated by Frank thus she dominates Jeffery (at the beginning) using terms she has learnt from Frank such as, "Don't look at me."
Shots of Jeffery peering from the cupboard are very effective. He seems almost psychopathic. He is enjoying being the voyeur.
Dorothy is sexually confused due to abuse. Has she developed to enjoy this abuse? Did she enjoy it from the start? Do we enjoy the things we know are 'wrong'?
The danger may be sexually arousing to the participants whether they are the abused or not.
"Do you like talk like that?"-Dorothy
"Now it's dark"-Frank
Frank is an extremist. He is acting out and performing his instinctive sexual desires. He is psychopathic thus lacking the impulse to repress his desires.
Does Dorothy enjoy Frank's torture?
"Don't you fucking look at me!!!"-Frank. He may feel ashamed/embarrassed of his desires/his actions.
The psychology of the abused and the abuser are closer than they appear in my opinion. They have become similar psychologically. They are two extremes of the sexual being.
Jeffery refrains from telling Sandy the whole story and doesn't want to tell the police due to his desire for Dorothy.
Sandy's dream of the robins may be representative of the whole story. The world can be very dark at times but there would be no light without the dark.
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