Evaluation task 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The main character in our film is mentally disturbed and lonely in the world because of his weird personality and eeriness. He lives with a basement dedicated to a girl that he is obsessed with and his mental disability causes him to have lack of sleep and mind twitches that are visible in the opening sequence.

When searching for similar characters, we found that Robin williams played a very similar character in the 2002 film On hour Photo in which his character Seymour Parrish obsesses over the Yorkin family. Like the stalker in our film Seymour is a lonely man that seeks comfort from his rejection in society by obsessing over people they wished they were with. Likewise, Seymour has a massive collage of photographs that he has collected from the family he wants to be in, and contemplates his work of art in the same way that the stalker in our film does. 

However, the stalker in our film has a much more disorganised collage which he has written on and mirrors his disorganised mind set. While Seymour's craziness is depicted with a perfect collage suggesting he also has an obsessive compulsive disorder, that again builds on to his nature of obsessing.


The costumes in both characters are only a bit similar in the sense that they both have rather baggy clothes even though the age difference also plays a part in what they are wearing. Our stalker is more casual and uses darker colours while Seymour is dressed with brighter colours that contrast his dark mind but suggest that he is hiding his true self. Which is my next point, Seymour acts normal around people and even though he comes across as a bit weird, he looks like a sane person. However, the stalker in our film is quite socially awkward because he doesn't interact with people on a daily basis like Seymour does in his job. This makes our stalker more obviously disturbed.