This show has been on my mind a lot lately. I can't overall figure out what is real. That is, there are things presented as actors and as rehearsals, which are clearly actors, but there are people presented as real -- but how scripted is the show? Are the "real" people even real, or are they actors too? How.much is this show a therapy session just for Nathan, and how much of it is a fully scripted show with Nathan as some kind of auteur?
Anyway, great show. Strangest show I've ever seen.
On a level its supposed to be a meta-critique of reality television as a whole, so I think making you slightly uncomfortable at not knowing which people are in on the bit is a part of the experience.
I can’t overall figure out what is real. That is, there are things presented as actors and as rehearsals, which are clearly actors, but there are people presented as real – but how scripted is the show? Are the “real” people even real, or are they actors too?
Yeah I'm wondering that too. One example is in episode 3 where
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They copied the "real" person's inheritance situation - down to the "real" person needing to change the grandpa's diaper - and put him through that copy so he can emotionally rehearse, with it actually feeling real to him.
But I have no idea how the "real" person wouldn't have picked up on that, it seemed pretty blatant.
But on the opposite side later in the episode Nathan talked about how other people can "immerse themselves with so little effort", "just believe", and "gather only what they need to know, and ignore the rest". So thinking that, maybe the above seems blatant to me (being autistic) but the "real" person immersed himself enough to not pick up on it.
But if the "real" people are actors, someone will find their IMDb pages eventually.
the one shot in episode 4 where nathan looks at the camera and just says "what is this show?" is just incredible https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/824011157923823665/1005610753413357619/SPOILER_unknown.png
I feel like a lot of the dialogue is really intended as a comment on the particular episode and the show in general. Like Nathan, or even someone else will say something like "sometimes you just can't tell what's a lie or what is true, but sometimes it is only the outcome that matters."
The show is great, definitely not the first way I would have thought to characterize the show but :shrug-outta-hecks:
It might be the strangest show I've ever seen. If you struggle with the cringiness of Nathan for You this is both better and much easier to watch.
Some parts of Nathan's method remind me of Kiarostami's Close-Up how it blurs the lines between director and script. It's hard to tell how much happens due to Nathan's influence, how much is just the characters being weird, sometimes you don't know who's an actor etc. And it's all intentional due to the way the show is cut.
If I saw I'm a gay woman, that doesn't mean I'm defining myself just by being gay. It just makes more sense than saying "I'm a woman with gayness."
We don't call tall people "people with tallness". We don't call black people "people with blackness." Being autistic should not be treated any differently because being autistic isn't worse than those things. Being autistic is actually much much much more fundamental to who I am than being gay is. There is a version of me that could exist without being gay. There is no version of me that could possibly exist without being autistic. It is not possible to remove autism from the person.
It's better than how some people talk about it, but where you see people first, I see an inherent part of how I perceive the world being referred to as a disease.
Someone posted a link to the first three episodes and those were great. I wish I had a way to watch more
I use 1337x.to for my non gaming piracy, if you're worried about legal repercussions use a vpn (but it will be potentially very slow)
