The narcissistic hero often refuses to integrate into society by not marrying. It must be noticed that marriage is the ticket for insertion of the narcissistic male into the domestic sphere. The domestic sphere is the sphere of women. But, their presence on the screen seems to threaten all narcissistic authority. The other form of identification is contemplation.
Contemplation makes the hero on the screen an object of the male viewers' gaze.
According to Neale, identification by contemplation might explain why in 'male' genres, violent scenes often present the mutilation of the masculine body. Supposedly, this annulment of the masculine body through mutilation is meant to suppress and eliminate homoeroticism. The fear of the sexual desires that might be present if the male viewer could contemplate the body of male characters causes the repression of the displaying of the male body in an erotic way. The male gaze is usually voyeuristic. The voyeuristic gaze is marked by the distance between the seer and the seen.