Eh Joe

The camera moves in “Eh Joe” creeps the viewer closer to the face of Joe. This magnifies every move, twitch, and blink of the character. The camera seems to try to get inside Joe’s head probing his thoughts his rebuttals to the condescending voice. However, the only achievement of these movements is the magnification of expression. Joe makes no reply to the voice, he has no defense. He shows only his intentness upon the voice. Joe’s thoughts and memory have become a plague to him at the present, and it is his own thought, his own memory of that voice, of his past life with which he cannot converse and from which he cannot escape. The voice magnifies the self just as the camera magnifies the exterior expression. Both create a terrifying look at the person of Joe, for the viewer as well as for Joes himself.