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The Voyeurs
Movie

The Voyeurs

2021 • Drama, Mystery, Romance

Woke Score
2
out of 10

Plot

Pippa and Thomas move into their dream apartment, they notice that their windows look directly into the apartment opposite - inviting them to witness the volatile relationship of the attractive couple across the street. But when they attempt to anonymously intercede in their lives, they unwittingly set in motion a chain of events that will lead to disaster.

Overall Series Review

The Voyeurs is a throwback erotic thriller focused on a young couple, Pippa and Thomas, whose move into a high-rise apartment leads them to become obsessed with spying on their attractive, tumultuous neighbors, Seb and Julia. The film explores themes of voyeurism, the ethics of observation, and the destructive nature of obsession. The narrative is driven by salacious mystery and escalating consequences rather than political or social commentary. Pippa’s increasing fixation on the neighbor's sex life and volatile relationship causes her to pull away from her own relationship and cross moral boundaries. The movie is primarily concerned with delivering twists, turns, and provocative sexual content typical of the genre, culminating in an ending that attempts to offer a form of 'poetic justice' to the characters involved. The moral framework is one of personal pathology and secular consequence, not political ideology or systemic critique.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics2/10

The main couple, Pippa and Thomas, is interracial, casting a white woman and a mixed-race man, but the plot conflict does not rely on race or immutable characteristics. Character motivations are entirely personal, focused on curiosity, boredom, and sexual obsession. The film makes no effort to lecture on privilege or systemic oppression. Casting appears genuinely colorblind, with no forced insertion of diversity that supersedes the narrative of a genre thriller.

Oikophobia1/10

The movie is set in a modern Montreal loft and centers entirely on the psychological and pathological breakdown of interpersonal boundaries (voyeurism). It does not contain hostility toward Western civilization, home, or ancestors. The narrative does not utilize the 'Noble Savage' trope or demonize heritage; it critiques the private moral choices of the individual characters.

Feminism4/10

The female lead, Pippa, is the central, driving agent of the plot, pushing the voyeurism from innocent curiosity to dangerous obsession, while her male partner, Thomas, is the more hesitant, passive, and 'low-key' figure. This centers female agency at the expense of emasculating the male lead. The male neighbor, Seb, is initially portrayed as a toxic, abusive, and cheating photographer. However, Pippa’s motivation is personal sexual desire and dissatisfaction, not career fulfillment, and her actions are shown to be destructive, not morally perfect or 'Girl Boss' successful. The film is fundamentally about sex and lust, not anti-natalism or career over family.

LGBTQ+1/10

The core relationships observed and participated in are exclusively heterosexual (a couple watching another couple, infidelity, threesomes). The film does not center alternative sexualities, deconstruct the nuclear family in a political context, or contain any focus on gender ideology or transitioning themes.

Anti-Theism3/10

The narrative exists in a secular space where morality is entirely subjective and situational, focused on the ethical line of privacy invasion and obsession. Characters' actions are driven by id and lust, leading to personal consequences rather than a higher moral law. This complete absence of objective morality is characteristic of the low-brow erotic thriller genre. However, there is no explicit hostility toward religion, no demonization of Christian characters, or overt anti-theistic lecturing.