The Kiss In The Tunnel
- Kylie Lydon
- Apr 24, 2020
- 1 min read
In the movies such as The Kiss, The Kiss in the Tunnel and What Happened in the Tunnel all show intimacy by having the camera in a close proportion to where the action is taking place and also in an area like inside the train that the viewers might not have been able to see before. By having the camera have access to these scenes it creates a world for the viewer of actually be in the scene with the performers which than lets the viewers gain an 'intimate connection with not only the people they are watching it with, but with the people on screen.
In one way that films like The Kiss in the Tunnel and What Happened in the Tunnel, go against the uses of cinema is the cinema and the young. There was a time that it was thought that young men and thieves would come and use their down time to watch films and that in turn provoked them to enter and continue a life of crime. I find this very hard that these films would make someone do such things because even for beginning of film all the are showing are people on a train either enjoying each others company or just simply having fun with one another. If anything these films where just an exploration of the outside world and for many a fantasy, which many films were meant for.
What do you think provoked people to be critical of cinema in this way? Why do you think that it was thought to be such a public health menace if it was only providing the escapist fantasies that we still associate with cinema?