ABSTRACT

The setting is a nighttime streetscape, captured by a handheld camera. The wielder of that camera-whose presence we can’t forget thanks to his shaky hand-watches a prostitute work the street, approaching the waiting car of a potential john. We, the viewers, don’t see much because the lighting is terrible and the sound is no better. What appears on-screen looks like the voyeuristic captures of an amateur with a cheap camcorder-not the work of a filmmaker who knows how to hide his presence.