- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 1982
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Horror
- Director:
- Best Performances:
- Premiss:
- Programmer seeks the ultimate in viewing thrills to boost the ratings of his small television channel.
- Themes:
- Original Sin | Self-expression | Compassion | Totalitarianism | White culture | White people
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Review Format:
- DVD
Savage, New Times
Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
Clever movie about the ennui of White culture and its resultant obsession with mediated experiences - be they televisual or, now, Internet-connected. By assuming genetic superiority, Whites have rendered themselves necessarily psychologically-repressed in order to ensure they feel no empathy for those they attempt to exploit (Blacks, women, Muslims, the poor, etc.); otherwise, the exploitation would make them feel guilty.
But this has led to Whites lacking a proper and full emotional life; in this instance, seeking tv substitutes that make tv more real than reality. To those who become addicted to the gogglebox, the sense of the intimacy of a sexual experience is priovided, but without the actual intimacy.
...[W]e love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.
(born 1941), US author, columnist. The Worst Years of Our Lives, “Spudding Out” (1991; first published 1988), of “couch potatoes. ”
This inward-looking and narcissistic approach to living refuses to accept the need to offer any evidence for any statement of whom one is. Lacking evidence of their superiority, Whites attempt to use technology as a means to self-improve the breed.
The characterization of the quintessential neurosis of Western culture is well-presented through well-drawn characters who, yet, lack the soul the dramatist is struggling to explore. Yet this is sophisticated horror for grown-ups.
For Whites, the issue is: Do their hang-ups cause the refusal to face reality or does the refusal to face reality cause the hang-ups? Either way, a lack of humility leads to inevitable and internecine self-destruction: Sensually, emotionally & morally.
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