Mocumentaries...

Well, I saw this movie tonight and didn't realize until about halfway through that it was a mocumentary..It was very plausible, really - One of the writers is selected for a documentary, then is fired. He goes to Las Vegas on a "research" mission for his next screenplay..People do that all the time..launch false missions to compensate for overwhelming disappointments..

It was only when his friend's dog crapped right on his pillow, then peed on his screenplay that I went "Hey, wait a minute"...Then realize I was being had. The description posted in the theater lobby made no mention that this was a mocumentary..they even used the word documentary.

Although I enjoyed the movie, the high-profile cameos gave a somewhat cynical feel to the final third of the movie..The higher-ups making fun of people at their own expense..There really are people who earn a living being showboys. The audience was silent during the Siegfried and Roy segment.

The underlying truth about the movie is an over-paid writer treating the whole profession as a hoot. Consequently, we never gain any insight into the world or the people who inhabit it that the movie on its surface pretends to deliver. It's just an in-joke spoof on "Showgirls"...When I left, I had that same feeling I used to get after visiting a leather bar - lots to look at, but none of it was real.