Nino, like Amelie, is a kind of professional voyeur. During the day, he sells sexual pictures of people, and during the evening he creates photographic collages of stranger's faces in the name of his art. Nino's creation of art is only through snips of life, rather than through actually experiencing life. Like the title character, Nino gazes at others and manipulates their lives from his hidden position.

Amelie cannot allow herself to openly express her affection for Nino, as this would take her into the position of a 'subject,' rather than a voyeur. She hides in a puddle of water whenever Nino sees her, becoming a reflective mirror rather than an observable human being. In the water, Nino can only see himself, although some might observe that the conventional relationship of the 'male gaze' and the subject female. Voyeuristic cinema renders the woman into a kind of projection of male...
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