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...Commentary: Big Brother caught on film div.picturebox { width:245; padding:0.2cm; border: 1px solid #cecece; background-color:white; } Saturday, April 28, 2007 Commentary: Big Brother caught on film By CARINA CHOCANOLOS ANGELES TIMES Sony Pictures Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale in "Vacancy." Few things inspired more clammy dread in the average Western democracy-dweller during the last century than the idea of constant electronic surveillance - basking in the gaze of Big Brother 24/7.But that was a long time ago, before camera phones and YouTube minted legions of amateur stalkerazzi, before the area surrounding George Orwell's former London flat was outfitted with 32 TV cameras, the better to capture miscreants, brawlers and litterbugs in flagrante delicto.We're a nation of spies and the spied on, and a new crop of films plays out the uneasiness of an era in which we have lenses aimed at us on traffic lights and at 7-Elevens, on ATMs and in nanny-cams.Clearly, something about the notion of being watched and judged is still profoundly upsetting to us - despite how much we ask for it on "American Idol." And lately our collective anxiety about it is seeping into the movies.But the spying that's bothering us in recent films seems to have more to do with the sort of ad hoc, vigilante monitoring we subject one another to than any kind of organized, institutional effort.What concerns them is not Big Brother but the ways in which we've internalized voyeurism, prurience, violence, sc...

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