Rent A Family (Part 1): Difference between revisions

The program explores an organization that rents women with children to bachelors for days at a time.  A woman talks about signing up with the program.  Panel discussion about the program with a spokesman and questioners:  men who choose a range of different families; renting spare children; the cost of different families; built in obsolescence; the relative value of long and short term relationships; the RAF as prostitution.  Clips from the catalog of applicant videos against a background of chimes and Joe listing random nouns.  The woman discusses her first experience in the program.  Panel discussion continues: loneliness; the no parent family; intimacy in short term relationships; fast moving society, a bachelor in RAF commits suicide. More catalog clips.  The woman describes the first meeting with her renter for a picnic on the beach. [Spoiler removed.]  Panel discussion: the strangeness of the encounter as a positive, alienation in ordinary marriage.  

There is/was an actual "Rent-A-Family" company in Japan that sent actors to visit lonely parents - see [https://www.context.org/iclib/ic37/bush2 "Running Out Of Time"] (''In Context'', Winter 1994).