Lo sguardo senza invidia: il cinema e la maschera dell'io ideale

The article deals with the question of envy, the sad passion for excellence, and connects it to the experience of film spectatorship, denying the possibility of a envious spectator. The chance of this connection passes through two assumptions: first, the link, not only etymological, between envy and vision, that in the thought of Jacques Lacan necessarily leads to the theme of narcissism; secondly, the identification between spectator and character, that wears the mask of “ego ideal”.