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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Eleanor, an unemployed divorceé with 2 young daughters, | |||
([[Barbara Sohmers]]) having trouble finding work, reluctantly joins | |||
<i>Rent-a-family</i>, an organization that rents out families to men who want | |||
one temporarily. | |||
9:30: <i>Rent-a-family</i>'s proprietor, Joel, ([[Larry Block]]) describes | |||
how <i>Rent-a-family</i> works. | |||
10:50: Panelist #1 ([[Tim Jerome]], German accent) asks a question | |||
about how it works. | |||
11:50: Panelist #2 ([[Arthur Miller]]) asks a question. | |||
12:10: Panelist #3, Johnny, ([[Nick Ullett]], English accent) asks a | |||
question. | |||
13:10: The panel and proprietor talk about <i>Rent-a-family</i> and society, | |||
planned obsolescence, the convenience of renting instead of owning. | |||
18: Carmen introduces herself; more voices of women and children, | |||
mostly drowned under music and sound effects. Joe names things | |||
(...cheeseburgers, zoning regulations...) | |||
19:40: Eleanor tells about Wendy and Diane; takes them to get filmed | |||
for <i>Rent-a-family</i>. She decides the first applicant is suitable, | |||
prepares for an outing at the beach. | |||
31:50: Panelist #2 says that society sells the happiness of families | |||
but families are diminishing. The panel discusses <i>Rent-a-family</i> | |||
further. | |||
41: More voices of women and children, mostly drowned under | |||
music and sound effects. | |||
42:30: The first outing, to the beach, goes well until the fellow | |||
(un-named and voiceless) takes the girls to get ice cream. | |||
51:40: The panel talks about <i>Rent-a-family</i> further. | |||
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
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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. | 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. | ||
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== Miscellanea == | == Miscellanea == | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{A Fine Line (Tim Story)}} | {{A Fine Line (Tim Story)}} is Eleanor's theme: it plays while she is speaking. | ||
{{Eihwaz (Defense) / Kano (Opening) (Giles Reaves)}} | {{Eihwaz (Defense) / Kano (Opening) (Giles Reaves)}} is the panel's theme: it plays when they are speaking. | ||
{{Gypsy Violin (Harold Budd)}} | {{Gypsy Violin (Harold Budd)}} plays when Joe is talking to families he has rented. | ||
== Commentary == | == Commentary == | ||