Stranger Eyes
Peiying and her husband Junyang are very happy with their little daughter Bo, but that happiness comes to an abrupt end when Bo goes missing. Their relationship suffers greatly because of this disappearance, with everything revolving around the police investigation. It all gets worse when one day a DVD arrives in the mailbox with footage of their private lives, including footage of Bo. And the DVDs keep coming; someone is observing them, someone is recording what they are doing. But who and why?
In a film that brings to mind Hitchcock's Rear Window and especially Michael Haneke's Caché, Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua raises the topical issue of surveillance and camera security. Who is actually allowed to watch whom? To what extent is our private life still private? Is there any escape? Yeo casts this story in the form of a layered, carefully restrained thriller, in which the tension steadily builds.
