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Writer-director Adam Rifkin hooks us immediately in “Look” as two giggly young women are spied upon by a camera as they try on clothes in a department store dressing room. They ogle their naked bodies, nuzzle each other a bit, and one of them indulges in shoplifting. It looks like reality filming by actual monitors. That’s the point, a premise that wherever we go we are being monitored with massive erosion of our privacy. But the impact soon diminishes.
We see a male employee feeling up woman employee’s rear, a couple copulating in an aisle and other intrusions. But the film has a fatal flaw. As it goes along and we are made aware by the interwoven scenes that everything is staged, the concept is dissipated. It doesn’t take long before boredom sets in, given the increasingly uninteresting subject matter being filmed.
If Rifkin could have made such a film using only actual footage from real surveillance operations, that would have been much more compelling. But that would be a tall order. Yet simulating such an idea ultimately doesn’t work very well once the gimmick becomes apparent.
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