Direct by DJ Caruso from a screenplay idea by Steven Spielberg, Paranoiak (original title: Disturbia ) features Kale Brecht (play by Shia LaBeouf), a 17-year-old boy under house arrest for hitting a teacher. The teacher had discrit his father, who di in a car accident. In order to alleviate his borom, he observes his neighbors through the windows of his house. He then makes two discoveries: a beautiful young girl, Ashley Carlson (play by Sarah Roemer), who has just mov in and a strange man, Robert Turner (David Morse) whom he suspects of being a murderer.
Frozen in childhood
From the opening scene of the film, the problem of the encounter with the opposite sex is pos. On the banks of a river where they are fishing, Kale and his father share a pleasant moment. When his father tries to get some phone number list confidences from his son, the latter humorously replies that he has met a girl, that she is pregnant and that they will soon move in together. “Your little one has grown up and will internet twice as fast: sunrise (upc) scores points soon be a dad,” Kale announces, hinting at both his desire for a girl and the unease caus by the sexual encounter, short-circuit in the joke by early fatherhood.
After his father’s death
Kale freezes in childhood. While he sleeps in Spanish class, his friend Ronnie gives a presentation on his vacation plans that oozes libido. When the teacher wakes him up, asks him what he plans to do during the summer and realizes that he hasn’t revis, Kale answers: “I stopp before…” An equivocal response that be numbers precisely indicates his subjective position: he is stopp. On the one hand, his relationship to knowlge is restrict: his school learning is at a standstill, no assumption of knowlge appears to be at work, which leads him to doze off in the middle of class. No “meeting with the masters 2 “, as describ by Freud, nothing leads him to make plans as summer approaches, which seems to ruin in advance the possibility of a romantic encounter.