Reality T.V.: Man's desperate attempt to sensationalize real life.
Some people, if not many, often wish for life to be like the movies. We long for near impossible coincidences that allows us to experience love, glory, strength, bravery, etc in the same way such emotions are portrayed in film. Editing, music, camera angles and locations all help to create such things. Reality T.V. is a form of entertainment that helps treat the real world, which is not full of those impossible coincidences, as a movie in which the people can be portrayed as characters in a story rather than just humans in the world. With the same techniques used for film, reality t.v. producers try to sensationalize what can be argued as a dull human life. The people who are being filmed, know they are being filmed, know they are not actors, and know that the audience knows all this. In a way it seems like we are unsatisfied with life, we want to believe that life can be like it is in the movies, and reality T.V. gets close but ultimately fails. The main problem is that since the people know they are being filmed, there is a sense of fake-ness in the real person's actions. Although it may remain entertaining, the goal to sensationalize the mundane human life is failed.
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