Ed, the protagonist of the story, is an ordinary person. However, one day, Cynthia, the program supervisor of NWBC’s Real Channel, approached Ed and invited him to participate in a program. A channel dedicated to him was set up to film his life live 24 hours a day. His life was never edited. Show in front of the audience. Under the temptation of high performance fees, Ed did not hesitate to sign the contract, so he woke up one day, Ed opened his eyes and found that the camera was facing him, and the ugly state of himself when he woke up was seen in front of the audience. Ed The private channel is officially launched.
On the first day of the show, Ed and the people around were very curious when facing the camera. Ed ate in front of the camera, exhibited his collection, introduced how he cut his nails, went to the bathroom, and even watched himself in front of the TV. Obviously, this kind of show is difficult to arouse the audience’s interest. It attracted a lot of bad reviews. The poor ratings made Supervising Cynthia very embarrassed, but no one could predict what would happen in the future. Under Cynthia’s repeated requests, the show won The show has continued.
On the third day, the story took a turn. Ed went to visit his brother Ray, but unexpectedly found that Ray was carrying his girlfriend Sally on the back of an affair with other women. This scene was recorded by the camera following Ed, Sha Li saw everything on TV, calling like Lei tantrums, Lei begged Ed to apologize to Sally in helpless circumstances, Ed found Sally, Sally complained to Ed, talking about the last two The people were emotional and vomited to express their long-standing affection for each other. The two hugged and kissed. Such scenes were still recorded by the camera. The audience sitting in front of the TV saw these unexpected triangles. The romance whipped their appetite, and the ratings soared overnight. Ed became famous overnight, and he was crowded no matter where he walked. Fans asked him to sign and take photos. The people who left him in the past were very enthusiastic about him. He and Sally also became lovers naturally, watching the two dating in front of the camera and became an audience. Dessert after a meal.
Ed enjoyed the pleasure of fame and became more natural in front of the camera, while Sally was annoyed by the ubiquitous cameras. The audience also began to get tired of Sally and sent accusations to Sally about whether Sally was worthy. Ed's opinion polls even made headlines in USA Today. Sally lost her privacy in front of the camera, and Sally lost respect in front of public opinion. Such a situation made her on the verge of collapse. She asked to stay away from Ed for the time being. Ed repeatedly begged Sally to stay. Sally decided to obey Ed and endure silently. But during a date, Ed and Sally escaped from the camera and hid in a car to linger, but the tracking camera captured all this, and Sally’s naked body was shown in front of everyone on TV. Such a blow eventually caused Sally to leave Ed and go to another city.
At the same time, Ed's biological father found Ed and asked Ed to find him a job on TV. It turned out that Ed’s father liked other women and ran away from home many years ago. Ed has always been stubborn about this, but the actual situation is not what Ed’s mother told him. His biological father told him that her mother had a new one. My lover, kicked him out of the house. The scandal of the family was exposed on TV and became a conversation piece for the audience, and the Eds family fell into a dilemma. Ed's mother had a private meeting with her ex-husband in order to apologize, but her ex-husband died of a heart attack. Ed realized that everything was caused by him, and was even more distressed.
The TV station sent a model girl to seduce Ed in order to increase the show. Ed was very angry when he learned the truth. He felt that he had become a merchandise for the TV station. He asked to withdraw, but he was threatened by the TV station's high liquidated damages. The TV station sent people to follow Ed's relatives 24 hours a day. The encounter with Ed's family finally awakened the conscience of the audience, and they began to support Ed. At this time, Sally returned to Ed. Ed and his family began to plan to repay the other deep. Prestige wanted to collect the scandal from the top of the TV station and make it public on TV, eventually forcing the program to stop broadcasting.
The movie ended in a happy Hollywood style, but the thoughts it gave us did not end. Director Howard used an exaggerated and absurd narrative technique to show the whole process of a reality show from the creative to the suspension, which won the audience laughter. At the same time, it made a pungent satire on today's reality show. In this age of entertainment supremacy, people are always interested in all kinds of lace news gossip, from the neighbourhood trivia of Zhang’s parents, Li Jiaduan, to celebrities smelling the shady scenes of various events, when they are bored and bored. The more you are interested in privacy, people's privacy becomes a kind of exhibition for people to talk about. We have to admit that everyone has a desire for voyeurism, and reality shows show people as a kind of exhibit after packaging and stripping their secret side to the audience to satisfy people's desire. When we see others making a fool of themselves on TV, we gloat. Of course, we don’t want this to happen to ourselves. No one wants to know our privacy, but once our privacy is exposed to the public’s eyes, our own How will the reaction be? This is something we deserve to reflect on. Let's see how the characters in the movie react.
The protagonist Ed, 31, is still just a small clerk in a video rental shop. There is nothing in life. His only talent is to dance the chicken dance. He seems to have no future in his life. He went to participate in this reality show because he wanted to change himself. Living conditions. He initially betrayed his privacy, so he got honor, money and love. He was triumphant, but as the plot progressed, the side effects of betraying his privacy gradually manifested. His girlfriend left him because he could not stand the surveillance of others. The family incident was exposed and indirectly killed his biological father. His relatives were harmed because of him. , When Ed realized that all of this was brought by him, his life could no longer be peaceful, he asked to quit, but was threatened by the TV station, at this time he was forced to continue betraying his privacy. He became negative and regretful. In a sense, Ed became an accomplice of the TV station. He was condemned by his conscience and was the biggest victim in the story.
Ed's girlfriend Sally was originally Ed's girlfriend. When she learned about Lei's affair with other women through TV, she was psychologically shocked. This was the first time she had been hurt. When the audience got tired of Sally, they criticized her and criticized her, until the naked body was exposed in front of the camera. Sally lost her privacy and chose to leave in order to protect her final dignity. She was an incident from beginning to end. victim.
Ed's elder brother Lei was exposed because he had an affair with other women, and was forced to break up with his girlfriend, and at the same time avenge his younger brother. However, he became famous after his younger brother's light, and he was somewhat rewarded by betraying his younger brother and his privacy, but then the media ridiculed him also made him a little bit distressed.
Ed’s parents had a peaceful life, but after Ed became famous, his biological father found him. The previous family scandal was exposed in the media. Ed’s mother had a secret meeting with her to express her apology, but killed her ex-husband. After being followed by a camera for 24 hours, normal life could not continue. They are joint victims.
There are two other characters in the film that should not be overlooked, Cynthia, the program supervisor of Real Channel, and Wai Ke, the producer. They represent two types of TV people. Cynthia is the planner of the show. She discovered Ed and supported Ed’s private channel despite the opposition of others. Her hard work paid off. The soaring ratings have made her famous on the TV station. In the first half of the show, Cynthia was unscrupulous for the audience rating. She first supported Ed and Sally on a date, and then arranged for a model girl to insert and seduce Ed. She hinted at Ed’s actions, and what she did was just to satisfy the audience. Enthusiasm to create focus. But in the second half of the show, when she realized the damage caused by selling her privacy to the Ed’s family, she began to conscientiously find that she demanded that the show be stopped, and had a dispute with Wai Ke, and finally she exposed the scandal of the TV station’s senior to Ed. , Which helped him defeat the TV station. From this process, Cynthia's professional ethics has overcome the dogma of "rating is everything", and she is still a qualified TV person. The producer of the TV station, Wai Ke, played a negative role throughout the film. He initially opposed Ed's private channel and supported the show when the ratings were high. In order to get the ratings, he repeatedly asked Ed to extend the show time and gloated at Ed’s family tragedy. He ordered someone to follow Ed’s family 24 hours a day. He has lost his basic professional ethics, and in the end Ed reveals his scandal on TV, and he himself has tasted the consequences of his privacy being betrayed.
There is also an invisible second protagonist in the film, that is, every audience sitting in front of the TV. They watch Ed’s life all the time. It is they who determine the direction of the show and the development of the story. They have witnessed it. The joys and sorrows caused by Ed's betrayal of privacy. In a sense, those audiences are the protagonists of the story. It is the audience's interest that has contributed to the high ratings of Ed's private channel and the tragedy of Ed's family. The other characters in the movie are just for the audience. Sartre once said that others are hell. Although unintentionally, the audience caused harm to Ed and his relatives. It was the audience's openness that made Sally lose her dignity, and Ed lost her freedom. The audience is just for entertainment, they don't need to consider the consequences of words and deeds. The TV station is all about the ratings and loses professional ethics. The audience and the TV station have compiled a net to lock the Eddy family together. But the audience made the behavior innocent. When they realized the damage to Ed's family, they sobered from the madness. They began to support Ed and condemned the TV station's actions.
What the movie implies is the contradiction between citizen privacy and mass media, which is a universal problem caused by the rapid development of today's media. What is privacy? Someone once defined privacy as a personal matter that is unwilling to tell or disclose. But in fact, each of us has a desire to be exposed. If it is not something shameless, we sometimes even want to expose our privacy. The digital age diary was moved from paper to the Internet, so with Blog, everyone had to expose their appreciation of the privacy of others and entertain themselves as well as entertain everyone. At this time, the so-called privacy things in the tradition can no longer be called privacy. From Muzimei's diary to Sister Furong, there are so many scandals that have been packaged, and things like that make everyone happy. If a celebrity has no scandal, it will be strange. I think that he himself is unwilling to accept. Privacy has become a commodity, selling privacy in exchange for reputation. Things that were rarely seen by the public in the past are now intensified through online media. As long as we are willing to sell privacy, we may become famous overnight like Ed, but the consequences of becoming famous are unknown. , Internet media has become a catalyst for everyone's success. So some people say that the Internet is now a grassroots era, as long as we have the courage to show our personality, each of us can become a hero.
There are also some privacy that we don't want to expose, and what kind of position the media was in at that time. I am reminded of the controversial incident of Chen Yi, a female college student who sold herself to save her mother last year. On September 15, 2005, an incident involving a female college student selling herself to save her mother was posted on the Tianya Community website and attracted the attention of netizens. The protagonist of the incident Chen Yi was a student from Southwest University. The amount of medical expenses, so she posted a post willing to "sell herself" to raise medical expenses for other people’s work. A short time after the post was posted, she received a response and raised a large amount of donations. Suddenly someone posted a post claiming to be Chen Yi’s classmate, telling Chen Yi’s actual situation It’s not as she described. She wears fashionable clothes at school and spends a lot of money. Her mother is also a civil servant and has medical insurance. This caused a lot of controversy. Many netizens began to condemn Chen Yi. Some netizens went to Chongqing to investigate at their own expense and proved Chen Yi’s actual family. The situation did deviate from what she described. Eventually, under the public opinion, Chen's mother forced the hospital to perform the operation regardless of the high risk of the operation, but the operation failed and passed away. Throughout the incident, Chen Yi was always in the focus of public opinion. Some people said she was cheating, and some forgave her for being considerate of her filial piety. It is understandable that a female college student is so beautiful and loves to dress up, and Chen Yiyou's capital was squandered by Chen Yiyou's family situation before the illness. But Chen’s mother’s illness does require a lot of money. Chen Yi’s approach may only be to reduce the financial burden on the family. She slightly concealed the actual financial situation of the family and only wanted to arouse others’ sympathy, but she did not expect the incident to develop. To this extent. The family situation was originally a citizen's privacy. When Chen Yi's privacy was placed in front of the citizens, public opinion pointed at her, and in the end she became a complete victim. During this entire time, the media's lavish rendering accelerated the tragedy of Chen Yi's family.
Cui Yongyuan once criticized that ratings are the root of all evil. The media can ignore professional ethics for the audience's ratings, and sell the privacy of others in exchange for the audience's attention. After all, the importance of ratings is because it can bring economic effects. But the media is not only for profit, it also bears more social responsibilities, and sometimes it plays a guiding role in the value orientation of this society. We imagine that we wake up one day and find that the camera is looking at ourselves. No matter where we are, there are countless pairs of eyes watching. The TV station tells you that we have been watching you. You have nowhere to escape. We have become Ed, I'm afraid we won't laugh at other people's privacy like the audience does when we arrive.
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