a type of metalepsis in which a character breaches the narrative barrier between the audience and themselves (i.e. the fourth wall), by addressing the audience (or merely looking into the camera), as if aware of the spectator and sometimes even their own fictionality. (FILMTERM) See also metalepsis
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