Albert Brooks' directorial debut, Real Life, not only saw the future of reality TV, it poked fun at it with remarkable prescience.
Along with being one of the most inventive, unconventional comedians of the last 50 years, Albert Brooks has written, directed and starred in comedies that have a tendency to belampooned baby-boomer nostalgia and yuppie conformity a couple of years before both those things became tiresome cultural trends.
Although Brooks claims he wants to capture these people in their natural element without any interference, he nevertheless moves in across the street from them, keeping tabs and making sure their every move is documented. It isn’t long before he inserts himself in their everyday lives. He ratchets up these folks’ mundane existence by orchestrating scenes like Jeannette’s trip to the gynecologist and Warren doing surgery on a show horse. Yeah, both of those don’t go well.
gets most of its laughs in the first 10 minutes, slides into a long middle stretch of repetitive situations and ends on a note of embarrassing hysteria”)The movie got into the whacked-out love/hate relationship we have with television—and the absurdity of making the ‘real’ real.
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