Reality (II) (2012)
6/10
review
20 November 2014
Warning: Spoilers
As terms indicate, and none but few even among the intelligentzia had foreseen, the virtual reality sold by mass communication has had an awesome capability to interpenetrate with «reality», going beyond any prediction. To the extent that by antonomasia «reality» became the most common synonym for «reality show». Ambigous by choice, the title of this film can then mean one or another thing: does it refer to a kind of TV production, reality shows, or to «reality»?

Perhaps following the story will uncover the answer to this, however, realities, initially said to be to reflect reality, have then significantly shaped the latter (just as social networks are shaping society injecting virtuality into it, rather than being a mere reproduction of society on a virtual dimension). Perhaps by now reality and realities are one new mixed entity, and not discernible anymore.

It is for a good part of it a decent film, with patently low-budget actors giving their all, non-cheap irony, raising with due discretion a contemporary crucial sociological problem, perhaps the main one: the seemingly limitless influence of mass media on the very lives of masses. The ending is well done, and mention-worthy for beauty are end credits.
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