Holy Motors Movie Analysis Holy Motors: An Analysis

Director Leos Carax has done it again. He has shocked the film industry with an abstract film focusing on the damaging power of our obsession with gazing into another's life. Voyeurism is a destructive force in the 2012 film Holy Motors, one which destroys the life of Oscar, the never-ending actor.

This intense French film was a major shocker in 2012. It is a very unique story told with incredible cinematic genius. Oscar, an actor, constantly drives around to different appointments, where he plays a number of odd roles. Sometimes he plays his roles in front o a large audience, while at other times they seem to be in front of only a few individuals or even no one at all. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to his roles, as he is random characters without much explanation of what is really going on. However, as the plot line progresses, the roles...

He dies more often and the interaction with other characters intensifies as well. When Oscar is finally introduced to someone from his own life, Eva, who apparently has had a child with Oscar, there is a growing sense of despair. Oscar is mortified when he watches Eva jump to her death. Still, Oscar continues on with his charades, as he continues to play more ridiculous roles. Throughout the entire film, Oscar seems to be everyone but himself, which wears on him immensely. The final scene of the film is the limousines discussing their fears of becoming outdated, which is an interesting take on how the real human characters of the play are feeling as the film progresses as well.
This extremely odd film plays into interesting notions of gaze and voyeurism. For many of Oscar's appointments, he is acting out his role for an audience that he cannot see with his own eyes, and often that are…