The true power here lies not in literal sight, but in *recognition*—the acknowledgment that another person's inner life is as vivid and valid as our own. Cameron, a filmmaker obsessed with how we perceive reality on screen, understands that being truly seen requires us to stop projecting our assumptions onto others and meet them as they actually are. A parent might physically look at their child every day yet fail this test entirely, whereas a stranger who listens without judgment succeeds where proximity failed. To see someone is to grant them the dignity of existing on their own terms.