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I think I was a voyeur in my past life.

posted 12 years ago by budarc
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So somehow I wound up here after watching Cache, getting an anonymous tip to see 388 Arletta Avenue, then following a lead to Alone With Her.

I could totally relate to Doug's social awkwardness and eventual infatuation -- escalating towards jealousy -- of a woman he's never even met. If you've ever been shy, you know how easy it is to fall in love with a beautiful lady from afar. While I agree that the digital spying is a step too far, it does make a good stylistic device for a movie like this. I thought it was going pretty good until the last 15 minutes or so when it spiraled out of control and took the generic hackneyed, stereotypical route of labeling him as a sociopath and psycho killer. I think that's too easy. I could relate with it until that point, which I suppose makes me a "creep" by extension.

The most unbelievable part is the premise that a beautiful woman like that would ever be alone in the first place.

[–] sozer183 9 years ago

Back in my high school days I tapped the phone of a local girl I was obsessed with. Easy to do back then as all the neighborhood lines terminated at a pole in the pines near my house. Easy to do since she gabbed for hours with a gf every evening and the other lines all made short calls. Gabbed not the proper term as these were the most incredibly slow and cryptic conversations imaginable. Almost like if they were watching the same boring tv show but this was before the advent of small 2nd tvs; each family just had the one tv in the main room back then. So the creepiness factor was indeed high but the payoff was below zero. Hours went by with nothing even worth recording - I could have got a battery powered recorder going if there was the slightest motivation. This was not the Disney experience I'd expected listening to two popular hs girls where you get the whole social skinny in no time at all. After a few nights of listening I just creeped myself out and ripped the wires down, but the creepiness took a long time to go away. I had gone too far over the line with this one.
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