Peep Show, 2005, Channel 4
When does a concerned interest in someone's activities become stalking?
Are some kinds of observance allowable and appropriate? Which ones aren't?
In the case of Peep Show, the scenes created and continued throughout the series, are created for comic affect. It does however question how far people will go to find out information on someone in an attempt to grow closer to them.
In this scene, we see continued attempts to hack into email accounts and even spying on a married next door neighbour. Personal accounts, such as email, are meant to be private and the fact that the character hacked them is a totally lack of trust and breech of privacy. Although funny, if this were to happy in real life it would raise serious questions about an individuals ethics and true feelings towards the object of there affection.
The actions witnessed in Peep Show over step the line, and defiantly fall into the category of inappropriate observance.
When does a concerned interest in someone's activities become stalking?
Are some kinds of observance allowable and appropriate? Which ones aren't?
In the case of Peep Show, the scenes created and continued throughout the series, are created for comic affect. It does however question how far people will go to find out information on someone in an attempt to grow closer to them.
In this scene, we see continued attempts to hack into email accounts and even spying on a married next door neighbour. Personal accounts, such as email, are meant to be private and the fact that the character hacked them is a totally lack of trust and breech of privacy. Although funny, if this were to happy in real life it would raise serious questions about an individuals ethics and true feelings towards the object of there affection.
The actions witnessed in Peep Show over step the line, and defiantly fall into the category of inappropriate observance.
1 comment:
Yeah you're right there mate, the peep show sketch is funny but in real life what he did was a criminal offence and he could easily have got the sack from work and had to face legal action too! When an obsession for anything leads you to break the law we must assume it has gone too far. Morally, stalking is insensitive and selfish and so a good indication that a concerned interest has turned into stalking might be that there interest leads them to abandon moral principles such as sensitivity in order to get what they want, whether that is hacking emails or following someone home.
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