'When tellers look people in the eye when they are speaking to them, Euro–North Americans perceive honesty and sincerity in their content. Thus as Michael Roemer (21) describes, when a film character directly faces the camera, audiences will understand truthfulness' - Greenhill and Kohm, 2013References:
Greenhill, P. and Kohm, S., "Hoodwinked! and Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade." Marvels & Tales, 27 (1), 2013, pp. 93
Roemer, Michael. “The Surfaces of Reality.” Film Quarterly 18.1 (1964): 15–22.
