Willing Voyeur..., The

76 minutes, 1993

Two women friends travel together on a train from Washington, D.C. to an unidentified destination. At that destination, a large, near deserted, railway station, body bags, presumably containing the victims of a gunman, are being hauled from the basement and placed in the cavernous main hall for disposal. In the basement young people are seen running for their lives. The two women will enjoy a night of love making together while the lone gunman will commit suicide. The persons charged with assembling the body bags make wry, faux-philosophical observations, including the comment that gun control would not have prevented what has happened.
A voice over, often heard at the same time as the voices of the on screen characters, recounts a version of events often at a variance with what is shown, sometimes repeating word for word what the on screen characters are saying. Oblique and elliptical, the dialogue never reveals the connection between the various situations presented. In this examination of the theme of central power and its influence conventional narrative structure is totally disregarded allowing no clear conclusions to be drawn.

Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

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