Nathan Fielder spends the first ten minutes of season 2 of “The Repearsal” with apparently good intentions. He studied the transcriptions of the cockpit leading to several plane accidents, and he deduced that the interpersonal anxiety between the pilot and the co -pilot is the biggest factor of fault for them. Very quickly, however, the field player plunges into a troubled territory: he hires his actors (trained at “The Fielder Method” of season 1) to study the employees of the intercontinental airport of George Bush.
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This includes TSA agents, store workers, on-board agents and of course the pilots themselves. For the pilots, the defender of the pilots makes his actors follow them on their flights, then follow them in their hotels when they land in other cities. We are entitled to a clip, filmed from what looks like a camera of the body, where an actor knocks on the door of the hotel room of a real pilot. He pretends to be a previous guest who left something behind in the room, and he asks the pilot to let him search in his room. The pilot, whose face is not blurred for the camera, accepts and lets the actor enter and discreetly study his property.
This is a scene that immediately raises two questions: 1) Is it legal? And 2) If it is legal, which of my members of the congress should I call to solve this problem?
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Reality emissions like this are generally authorized to show images of people when they are in a public place, that the airport itself is qualified. But is the pilot ‘hotel room still considered a public place? Aside from legal problems, I think we can all agree that this behavior crosses a few ethical lines. I do not think that anyone who appreciates discovering that a complete foreigner has followed them all day, studying their ways in order to represent them in a television program.
Nathan Fielder’s ethics of television shows has long been a controversial subject
This helps that we know that “rehearsal” is not always 100% honest on what is real or not real, so we can assume (or hope) that these people that the actors followed for days were more aware of the situation than “Gotta to have fun”. However, the total disinterest of the program to be developed on this subject is intentional; Nathan clearly indicates throughout season 2 that he needs this show must be comical and entertaining, and the joke of this sequence is that we are supposed to laugh at the way Nathan is invasive and obsessive in the pursuit of his goals.
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Of course, not all spectators can find humor in this area. When season 1 is released, New York The film critic Richard Brody castigated the “cruel and arrogant” look of Fielder. “The deception prevails throughout,” he wrote. “Fielder sets up a false website in order to attract a woman named Tricia, to whom Kor plans to make her confessions, in the project under the shelter (and the deception goes far, even to a false work for her); we never discover when she learned in which she had been roped.” Brody continued to go to Fielder, refusing to forget the many invasions of privacy and the confidence that Fielder has achieved.
I largely agree with the moral concerns of Brody about Fielder, with the exception of the party where he claims that Fielder is not interested in responding to these moral concerns. The fourth episode of season 1, “The Fielder Method”, is angry in the way the introspective is willing to be. Fielder Roleplays as one of the real people he obtained in the series, a budding actor named Thomas. Nathan tries to live by himself how much and operating practice feels from Thomas’s point of view, and his discovery is deeply unflattering for himself.
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The sequence underlines how the Fielder production team puts pressure on people to sign a “appearance of appearance” which is far too long and complicated for most of them to be analyzed. Then, just to really emphasize how spoiled it is, we look at the field of fields which would press one of its actors of “Method Method Fielder” to give him the keys to his apartment. We then look at Nathan comb through the apartment of this stranger all night, then sleep in his bed, despite the fact that he stopped that he only stopped to water his plants.
Do Nathan Fielder’s ends justify his means?
Nathan’s actions throughout this show are frightening, but they are supposed to be frightening. Comedy comes from Nathan’s disruption, and his apparent lack of self -awareness. Nathan’s character does not seem to be self-aware, but the spectacle itself certainly does so in the way he depicts it; The only question is whether this self -awareness is sufficient. If the show always exploits real people for entertainment, as it certainly seems to do to a certain extent, does its self-awareness not do worse, not better?
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Until now, there are two graces of backup of season 2 of “The Repearsal”. The first is that he never has the impression that the show makes fun of the people whose privacy he breaks. For example, the pilot who is wrong to leave an actor with a camera in his room is not the butt of the joke. The public should sympathize with him and worry about what the actor do (and the murer).
The other saving grace is that Fielder only violates the confidence and privacy of these foreigners for the greatest good. Preventing future accidents from the airline is a noble task, assuming that the defender player is serious about it. I think most people would forgive Fielder’s transgressions if his experience really exercised positive and significant results. If Fielder somehow manages to make travel by modern aircraft less terrifying, he can violate my private life as much as he wishes.
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