Eye of the Beholder (film)

Eye of the Beholder is a 1999 CanadianBritishAustralian mystery thriller film that employs magical realism. The film, based on Marc Behms novel of the same name and a remake of Claude Millers 1983 French thriller Deadly Circuit, is directed and adapted by Stephan Elliott.

Stephen Wilson, aka The Eye Ewan McGregor, spies on office workers in the neighboring building having sex, then humiliates them by sending photos of their tryst to their colleagues. From the beginning, Stephen appears to be slightly off kilter, having used a gunstock to take aim at the office workers and later pining over an old photo of his estranged daughters elementary school class. On the back of the photo is written Guess which one is your daughter, you asshole Go Fuck Yourself. Margaret Not knowing which girl is his daughter, he randomly chooses one to call Lucy.Stephen is soon contacted by his handler, Hilary k.d. lang, at the British Consulate in Washington D.C., on behalf of their boss, Mr. Hugo Vlasta Vrana, who asks Stephen to follow his 22yearold son, who has recently stolen money from his trust account. As Stephen begins to track his bosss son, he has a surrealistic or imagined a conversation with Lucy AnnMarie and Kaitlin Brown, the first of many in the film. Stephen photographs the sons rendezvous with a woman Ashley Judd, but the woman also sees Stephen take her photo. Later, Stephen sets up surveillance equipment at the sons home, enabling him to overhear the conversation and beginnings of a sexual encounter between the son and this woman. The woman asks the son about the money he has withdrawn from his trust fund and describes herself as a selfish, manic depressive Pisces. In the guise of playing a sex game, she orders him to get down on a sheet of plastic that she has laid out. She then stabs him to death. Oddly, she becomes distraught, cries, and yells out Merry Christmas, Daddy. She then drags the dead body wrapped in the plastic sheeting to a dock, where she drops it into the water. Stephen watches as she rinses the blood off of her naked body and takes off a brown wig. Stephen imagines Lucys voice saying Dont leave her Daddy. Shes just a little girl. Dont leave her alone. He seems to take these words to heart, following her by car as she driv

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