The Show
An unsettling look at reality television, where a disturbing game show has its contestants ending their lives for the public's enjoyment.
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- Cast:
- Josh Duhamel , Famke Janssen , Giancarlo Esposito , Sarah Wayne Callies , Caitlin FitzGerald , Chris Ellis , Chelah Horsdal
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Let's be realistic.
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Yes, Karina's story crucial to the plot. I love the way that she get more and more distraught about the situasion and finally she donate her own life to show Adam the error of his ways "The syringe's heavy speech" is a poem i wrote about it. It's about Karina's story. Beatiful movie = 10/10
An unsettling look at reality T.V. where a disturbing hit game show has its contestants ending their lives for the public's enjoyment. This is Your Death or also known as The Show is a film that mixes elements from 'The Running Man' and 'The Hunger Games' Franchise but unfortunately without any actual depth what so ever. Duhamel and the rest of the cast are terribly wasted in this over the top boring flick of a movie that basically makes no sense and also nothing happens at all. This Is Your Death sums up the entire movie quite well. (0/10)
At first glance "This is Your Death" poses a horrific, unimaginable concept - a new reality tv show in which people commit suicide in front of a live studio audience in exchange for a financial settlement for their loved ones left behind. However, history has given us such violence in the form of gladiators, public executions and online content depicting torture & murder to name a few. Mix this with the seemingly never ending influx of reality shows, serving up increasingly bigger, bolder concepts and shock & awe tactics, it worryingly doesn't seem entirely unbelievable for such a show to exist in our future.The characters are fairly predictable - from the cold hearted, soulless TV executive concerned most about ratings and the bottom line, to the individuals struggling in their lives and looking for a way out that the new reality show provides. Where this film differs is in its attempt to concentrate more on the heart of the people involved rather than simply go down the "gore fest" route. We follow the shows host in what begins with his dark moral compass seeing the show as a way to celebrate the value of life, before things inevitably spiral out of control leading towards its finale.The film holds up a dark mirror to us the audience - as however you come into watching it, be it intrigue or as a gore hound, you become as implicit as the reality show audience itself, giving warrant for a demand in depicting such suffering of human life.Overall it's an interesting morality play on our society's reaction to violence and darkness we see in the news/media everyday. Is this the next step in our (d)evolution?
This film tells the story of a reality TV host, who witnesses a murder and a suicide on his program. Instead of being fired, the studio asks him to host a new game show, in which they do live broadcast of people committing suicide for money."This Is Your Death" is a very powerful film. It keeps me interested and engaged all along, because the lack of morality of the story is just too disturbing to ignore. It provokes thoughts and discussion regarding assisted suicide. The idea of broadcasting it live for TV ratings is a big moral and ethical question as well. The story is very disturbing and appalling, but the thing is that it is believable. It is a great film with an original and unbelievably gripping story.