Their passion always requires a triangulation.  There must be the possibility of being seen by another.  It is not enough that they have each other; there must be some continual validation of outside observation, whether alone or together. 

Her desire is awakened via his possible transgression. She needs to know this desire through a curiosity of how it would register.  They can only know their desires by trying to understand how these desires register on the screen.

She relates to him by following him (or someone else) with a videocamera, replaying the tape in order to confront him and then confess to him. He relates by denying that it was he and creating varying degrees of implication -- to the extent that we don’t ultimately know whether it was he. He uses this as a way of inhabiting other identities and of courting judgment. Through such acts of judgment, he is formed; he is not able to sedimentate identity for himself.

She is not sure of why she has the need to follow, but she seeks to understand it by allowing the situation to play itself out, while observing the roles that she is compelled to inhabit. She has the need to implicate others in these acts of seeing: she requires someone else to observe her and her prey – someone who suspects them – as if the measure of such observation were an index of her worth. 

The man uses images as a way of trafficking among identities.  He plays himself out through images. He evades, but he needs to be caught.  He needs to be judged.  Through an act of judgment, he is formed.

The woman validates herself through the image.  She looks for transgression in an image as a way to externalize, or exorcise, that part of herself that she does not want to own.

She needs to know that someone else observes her. That someone else would suspect her, and watch her, is an index of her worth.  She is fueled by the sense that she is a person worthy of suspicion and observation. She needs to know that she would be desired in that way. That someone would want to catch her in that way.

Somehow, through this very complex network, a true intimacy arises.