As touching as the feelings of loneliness are in this young man who spies on a woman with a telescope are, there is too much of a violation here, and her reaction, to respond to him despite all his creepy behavior, seemed pretty strange to me. As organic as the film seems, with a sense of realism in the male character and his surroundings, the female character seems pretty unreal. There is certainly a mood created of loneliness and the desperation of trying to find someone to love, and the film may be asking questions about what love is after all - e.g. does studying someone so closely for a year in their most private moments allow you to know them at some level where you can truly love them for what they are? - but I guess I just couldn't get past the point that the woman reacts to him this way. He's shown to be a sympathetic, lonely guy; she actually questions whether she's "right" or good enough for him because of her involvement with multiple men. It seems pretty backward in that way, and I didn't see all that much that was profound in the filmmaking or script either. Not awful, but not for me.