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cognitive thought, and moves outwards to show his eye, before returning to his
cognitive thought, which then includes eye/camera shots of doctors examining Jason.
These images then become a reflection in Jason’s eye. By doing this the viewer sees
the world as Jason, as well as into Jason. The spectator is shown that it is, in fact,
Jason they are seeing in and through at the end of the sequence. The image cuts to
bloody medical instruments, and then cuts between an eye/camera shot and a
reflection of Jason’s eye/camera in his eye as a doctor with a harness moves larger in
the frame and leaves the harness when he steps backwards, intercut with images of
chains attached to the harness. After this sequence cuts, the viewer is shown Jason
suspended by a harness and chains in the middle of a warehouse-sized room. This is
representative of further eye/camera shots from Jason’s eye in the film in which he is
relatively passive. In this opening scene, we see through his eye/camera as the guard
approaches him with a tarpaulin saying, “Why don’t you stare at this a little while,
you bastard?” before throwing the tarpaulin over his head. After this, we only see
Jason’s eye/camera as he walks up behind Crutch without killing him, and then as he
wanders the corridors of the space ship before Geko’s death. The final eye/camera
shot from Jason occurs as Kay-Em 14 fires a small rocket at his head, which
decapitates him, before he becomes regenerated as “Uber-Jason”.
The eye/camera shots from other characters are very similar to those of
Jason. We see Kay-Em 14’s eye/camera as the group initially finds the cryogenic
facility, and they are looking around the room. As Brodski is searching the ship for
Jason, we see him examining the area as he tries to track Jason, and we also see
Crutch’s eye/camera as he and Ray look at the severed limbs of a crew member on
the bridge of the ship. In more active sequences, the viewer is shown the eye/camera
of Condor, and one of the two VR Teen Girls as Jason stands over them about to