what if my (or yours) life was just a movie that others watch?

[SuicidalOrganism]

The Truman Show Effect (feeling that your life is a reality show where others witness and laugh). I have some philosophical thoughts that my own life is a staged reality show that others are watching and laughing at my own misfortunes. But if my whole life was a movie 24/7, then id say that it is pretty boring
Anyone have such thoughts?

 

[Anonymoususer1234]

I feel like my life has too much boring filler and too many plot threads that go nowhere to be a movie. Besides I'm not important enough to be the main character of anything.

 

[sometimes.sometimes]

It would just be kind of sad. It's not because of everything I went and go through, it is just the fact it won't have a happy ending. No matter how hard I try or the lengths I go through to feel better, it will all just lead down the same path of being hopeless. Even then, the movie would be so incoherent due to a lot of hallucinations and dissociation, would people even tune in?

I hope that one day, though, I can change all of that so that if it were a movie, it can be hopeful and motivating.

 

[jazzcat]

I'd be a very boring and sad movie but it would have great music I guess

 

[SirCalvinXIV]

Well, apart from a kind of shocking ending, it'd switch between overly chaotic and completely uninteresting. At the very least, it'd show the disparity between the online world and the real one, not that that's revolutionary or anything, but that'd be just about the only plot line that could be managed.

 

[The anhedonic one]

My life as a movie would appear as an exceptionally dark comedy.

 

[Ambivalent1]

No one, not even celebs, have interesting enough lives to be viewed constantly.

 

[Homo erectus]

If one takes a subjective view of the world, this is very possible. Everyone and everything else can be just actors or zombies. Essentially one lives inside a consciousness bubble, maybe just a simulation. Others are watching from outside for entertainment, or for knowledge, maybe.

 

[FuneralCry]

I don't really think so, to me any theories like that just come across as being completely fictional, and anyway my existence is very dull, empty and pointless, there's nothing interesting about any of this, I'm just waiting around to die, and that's all what existence is. Humans are just passing the time until everything is forgotten about in death.

 

[Forever Sleep]

People would be leaving bad reviews for being so utterly bored. They'd need a tissue at the start- quite a sad beginning. After that though, they'd be mucking about on their phones I suspect.

 

[NumbItAll]

I normally don't like movies, but I finally watched this one because I was interested in the concept. I do relate to the idea of living in a fake world where we have no control over anything, but I lack the paranoid thoughts that there is a conspiracy where everyone else is in on it. It is a great and humorous movie though, and I can see how it could induce paranoia for some people.

 

[alterrea]

Would love to ask them why on Earth they are still watching?

Also would love some guidance on what they thought the plot was about because boy does it make literally zero sense to me

 

[jonghyun]

A DEEP TRAGEDY TEARJERKER

 

[Zegers]

Then i want the royalties.

 

[outatime_85]

I know how my movie ends. I have played the ending many times in my head.

There is nothing worth watching unless one enjoys seeing another's life come to a slow, tragic end.

There will be no last-minute rescue.

The hero does not make it.

The wages of sin must be paid.

My entire family knows how my movie ends, but they still choose to watch it come to its conclusion while sitting around and hoping that it ends with a ride off into the sunset.

Spoiler alert: It doesn't.