Deconstruction: The Eiffel Tower Shot

She pulls him up the steps past the sleek facades of the Beaux Arts building, up towards the plaza with the famous view across the Seine to the magnificent creation of Gustav Eiffel, the iconic symbol of Paris.

But he is having none of it, at first. He is following her but walking up the the last steps at angle to allow himself to look not forward but down the gentle steps, at the other people and groups there, for the purpose of gazing and taking pictures. When he gets to the plaza level. He has turned completely around and is walking backwards slowly gathering in the view diametrically opposed to the direction everyone else is facing until he is up beside Marguerite, who is looking across the Seine.

They are cheek to cheek but facing opposite directions. They can see each other.

He marvels at her looking at the tower for an instant. She turns and looks at him.

 something like:

Marguerite: Tu ne veux pas le regarder? 

You aren't going to look at it?

While she waits for his answer he cranes a little forward and looks right into her eyes.

Derrida: I can see it. It's in your eyes.

She begins a serious of reactions, trying to process what just said, weighing instantaneously on many feminine levels, but before she can react in any solid manner, he interrupts, motions gently towards the people all around them, behind her, saying.

D: In their eyes too. All of you. 

He motions for her to look again the tower.

D: Look again...

She obeys and he studies her eyes again.

I can see exactly what you are looking at. I know exactly what it is.

M: You can see I'm looking at something...

D: I know it's all and far away. By the way you move your eyes up and down, and the way the other people are standing, in a relaxed way, as they would only it were across the river.

M: But you can't tell it's the Eiffel Tower, though?

D: Yes, even that. If I look closely I can see the curve of a gaze. I could tell the contours of the lines of the tower. I could triangulate. I could know there is something interesting that captures you gaze at the top and near the base---the restaurant.

Then he looks away from her back at the people.

D: If I could look at Paris right know, the whole city, and look at everyone who is looking at the tower, from every angle, and see their eyes, perhaps I could know every detail about the tower, even though I had never seen it. I would know exactly what it was.

From above, in the wide view, they are two small people in the plaza of the Trocadero, amidst the others---which include a small tour of a Togolese government official with his family in Paris.  He is now the one facing the tower and she is looking at him, holding his hand. We can see him motion and pull her back down the steps in the direction they came.

As we fly out way over Paris, until we see the river and the tower beyond it, and the entire tableau on the Seine, let's hear some of this (perhaps we heard this in the intro as they come up out of the metro, in which case we'll pick it up again at the end of the scene).