#i dont even know who this is so i cant tag the actor

Essay topic

At two points in the film Rip Girls, we see a mysterious person watching the action through binoculars, but we never discover this person’s identity or intentions. All we have to go on is a music cue indicating that this person is somehow sinister. What do you make of this? Is the film trying to make a statement about surveillance as a means of social control? To call into the question the morality of Sydney’s photographing of surfers without their consent? Or perhaps to represent, and therefore implicate, the viewing audience?

(Seriously, who the hell is this person?)