- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2008
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Drama
- Director:
- Best Performances:
- Premiss:
- A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
- Themes:
- Alienation | Guilt | Loneliness | Political Correctness | Totalitarianism | White culture
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Zoo
- Review Format:
- DVD
A good look at the White habit of telling stories about themselves as if they were talking about someone completely different. (A bit like telling someone that you have a friend with a problem to avoid admitting that the friend is actually you.)
The result is that Whites live an uncommitted half-life watching themselves go through the motions of living but, not actually doing so. The pointed analogy of putting on a theater play with the way Whites live their lives is well-taken and well-presented, such that pretending to be someone else comes to be what “being themselves” amounts to; leading to a sense of failure and the fear that others are as interchangeable and as expendable as anyone else - even men with women. Here, self-actualization becomes an impossible dream because so little of any value is ever passed on to the next generation - a deficit carried on forever.
Like Zoo, this is ultimately about Death and Dying, yet would have been improved if it were also about Life and lilving. Nevertheless, this could easily have been as self-indulgent as the characters and the screenwriter but, it is very funny and all of the first-rate performers give their all.
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