and filmmakers subject their audiences to sit and watch their art. you sit and you watch.
it's the nature of the medium but i saw it differently when a film prof i had once told me that he screened a physically (eye straining) hard to watch film and let the audience just throw up
To say a film is “perverted” is superfluous. Cinema itself is already voyeuristic in its own nature. There’s nothing more perverted than setting up a camera towards someone else.