It's the riveting way each confronts the camera.
The most refreshing shots are those in which subjects confront the camera and the fantasy.
In one memorable shot two seated girls confront the camera with disdain, as if to say, "There's that creepy old guy again".
As Marianne and Harry bicker in the street, each of them confronts the camera, their faces filling the frame, and even Swinton's makeup becomes a weapon.
The most refreshing views of Cuba are those devoid of romance, particularly those in which the subjects appear to confront the camera.
Then there is his physical presence: the almost religious deliberation with which he wraps his face in a gauzy black hood and confronts the camera suggests someone very much in control of his own presentation.
Then he turns, in closeup, to confront the camera, and reveals a long visage creased in delight, with a cigarette stuck in the smile — half Pulcinella, half deposed emperor, already tasting the mournfulness that rises like smoke from every explosion of fun.
He was twelve when he saw the movie with his older brother, and that scene where she removes her tacky wig and her cheap hooker dress, exposing her cropped hair and her — oh, my God — and then cups her hands over her breasts and turns away from the mirror and confronts the camera, unabashed, that scene, that moment, that brazen glimpse of the person underneath, was like a revelation.
But instead of facing its owner behind the desk, Checkers -- still performing public relations -- turned out to confront the camera.
