It's all in the eyes

I, Robot trailer 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL6RRIOZyCM

Something about when a character looks right into the lens, makes you as a viewer feel the emotion and the intimidation of what the film is trying to portray to you. Not only does it make you as the viewer feel like something is about to happen, but it also makes you feel as if the character is going to reach out and grab you. An example of this is within the film 'I, Robot'. The human characters within this film do not particularly look down the lens, but the robots in this does. I feel like what the film illustrates by having the robots look right down the lens, is a sense of having no emotion and being non-human. When watching TV shows, there is often a pattern that is seen with characters that are not human, and that is when they look right down the lens. It feels as if they are coming to get you as the viewer. And filmmakers obviously make that choice to do exactly that. They want a specific reaction from the audience depending on the genre of the film. There is also a feeling of chaos when the robots look into the camera. It is like when something comes up to you and they are angry and look you right in the eyes. There is something that isn't right and you feel unsafe in that particular situation. Even within the trailer of this film, the eyes say it all. The anger and the emotion that the robots have to destroy humans is very strong, ironic considering they are not supposed to feel anything. The difference is that these robots have the capacity to feel, and you can see that in the changing of colour that each robot has when going through the film. Of course the ones who do look into the lens that are human are usually psychopathic. This again is used by filmmakers to ensure that the audience know what the person/thing is thinking and the path that they go on reflects within their eyes. It is a great trick that everyone filmmaker uses to portray that psychotic side of the story, because of course it is all in the eyes.