Reality TV

Watching the film today, along with my 10 grade students (a semester devoted to reality / fantasy in cinema) I had a thought I hadn't had before. The film was shot in the mid-1980's, some tome before the idea of reality [sic] television. But watching how people began coming to the theater to watch the "real life" characters stuck on the screen, seemed like an unintentional prophecy of what we now have.

"Sometimes you have to take the bull by the tail, and face the truth" - G. Marx