During the Home invasion how is the spectator implicit to the attack?

At the beginning of this scene straight away we can see in terms of the women who eventually ends up getting raped and tortured every action she makes id dictated by a man. Although it is clear that she is reluctant to open the door, when Alex says his friend has been in an accident her husband tells her to let them in she complies right away. She is also overpowered and psychically dominated by Alex and his droogs when they want to have the old inout with her but she is resistant and is bound and gagged. In this sene we are also denied a female POV which would in normal circumstances seem important but it is not shown even though she is the character being attacked , therefore showing that the women in this movie have no choice but to be used for sexual pleasure. 
The mirrors that are positioned in the hallway when the women answers the door, makes the spectator look at her as she is shown from many different angels all at once giving the spectator no choice but to look at the women. Alex cutting the women's clothing into sections is the main focus of the scene which creates a fetishised object which also reinforces the male gaze. In the final shot, the male gaze is also shown to be apparent as it suggests that she is being given pleasure due to the fact the shot is angled so we just see her face while Alex is about to rape her. Also the rape scene is viewed from her husband perspective in his POV showing that he is the victim here which forces us to see the attack through the eyes of a male reinforcing Laura Mulvey's Visual pleasure and the narrative cinema theory, as it shows that she is an erotic object for the spectator within the audience, therefore Kubrick never allows us to see how it feels to be sexually assaulted but rather how it feels to commit the attack therefore showing that we are implicit in the attack.

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