Reading Response 6:

"Traditionally the woman displayed has functioned on two levels: as erotic object for the characters within the screen story, and as erotic object to the spectator within the auditorium"

In this text, Mulvey portrays the predominantly male gaze plays at this voyeuristic fantasy by objectifying women. The use of "scopophilia", which means to take the pleasure in looking and cinema plays on the tendencies of sexual differences, is also associated with taking other people as object then subjecting them to controlling gaze.

As Mulvey says, cinema can also be use to satisfy the "wish for pleasure looking", which for me also connects to Lacan's mirror phase. In Lacan's experience, we noticed how the mirror had an important influence on people perspective on themselves. We can now see how both the cinema and mirror can impact the life of an individual. When the author says that film produces ego ideals which then creates the desire in the audience to identity with the images seen. We can conclude from this part of the text, that our society was created from the concept of pleasure in looking to images and it is divided between the active male and passive female, where the sexual imbalance arises. I think this concept is wrong but I know it is not easy to be changed because our society was based on it years ago. However, I believe that we are better than years ago, better from when women were seen as an object other than a human being.