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Dominican Rep. Jay
- Original title
- Jay
- Year
- 2008
- Country
Philippines- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Producer
- Genre
- Drama
- Synopsis
- Jay, a gay schoolteacher, is brutally murdered in an apparent sex-crime. Even before his family hears about it, a TV producer – also named Jay – and his camera crew are inside their house to document their shock and grief. The TV producer convinces the family to let him shoot the dead man’s wake and funeral for a “reality show”. This will help them to ferret out the truth about the crime, find the killer, and bring him to justice, he says. However, it soon becomes clear that this concept of “truth” owes much to the entertainment value of the material being shot, and the expectations of the television audience. Skillfully orchestrating this “reality show” is the dead man’s namesake – a “journalist” who knows that the “truth” is whatever works on camera. The writer-director’s insider’s knowledge of broadcasting informs his incisive satire, which hits home by making fun of journalistic practices that are too outrageous and shameless not to be true. But Jay– with its mise-en-abîmeof reality, dissolving into infinite layers of media images and vice-versa – is also a meditation on the ways in which the third world is produced everyday as a spectacle, and a reflection on audiences that want their entertainment to be as crazy as the reality they live in.
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