Nict The Body Spoilers!

the term ‘male gaze’ keeps getting thrown at #thebody mostly over the butt shots and the jacuzzi scene, so i broke them down shot by shot. so the male gaze is a woman shown through a straight man's eyes for his pleasure. the term literally exists to describe how men look at women. a close up of a body is how film says a character wants someone. we're just used to that someone being a man. what this IS is the lesbian gaze (pls look it up) it's a mutual gaze between two women. each one is both the subject and the object of the look and of the desire. watch the two scenes in the video. elise's butt is LITERALLY a narrative device in this show. it's chekhov's ass. in ep 2 anya looks at elise and she's so ashamed bc she can't even admit to herself that she wants her. by ep 7 they've been together and elise looks right back at her and anya's like 'yeah. i want you.' the guilt is GONE. now it's mutual. then there's the jacuzzi scene 🧵