Mysterious Reflections of Hollywood Paranoia
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
In the three loosely related stories that make up “The Nines,” a philosophical mind teaser with satirical fangs that marks the directing debut of the screenwriter John August, the stressed-out psyches of jockeying Hollywood muckety-mucks are disturbed by strange metaphysical intimations. Think of it as a kind of “Twilight Zone 2007” in which the paranoia endemic to an industry that runs on illusion, hype and extravagant grandiosity comes home to roost.
For the Hollywood player with the right job description and available technology, isn't it tempting to imagine being God? A video-game designer or a reality-television director, as omnipotent creator and manipulator of a discrete little world, may fancy himself possessor of the keys to the kingdom. [...]
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