Jane has been left by her fiancé Dick. She talks about it with her shrink, Dr. Shreck. He says she hasn't got any psychic problems - it is her looks that are problematic. He orders his nurse to do something about it. When Jane has lunch with her mother, she says she has seen Jane on a screen and asks her for some autographs to give to the members of her bridge circle, much to Jane's surprise. More and more strange things happen. The waiter throws a pie in her face as a dessert. The nurse gives her a very wild hair-cut. Jane finds Dick at the Movie Star Lounge; he's there with his new girl-friend Hildegard - who looks very much like the nurse and the waiter. It seems that all the people around Jane have conspired to film (and script) her life for a 'secret cinema'. When she tells the shrink about it, he says it's just a delusion, a manifestation of the trauma caused by her being rejected by her fiancé...
Probably a remake of 'The Secret Cinema' (1968), also written and directed by Paul Bartel. But I'm not completely sure since I haven't seen the 1968 version - which might have been the inspiration for 'The Truman Show' since there is a similar plot element: the main character doesn't know that his / her life is being filmed.
It's an interesting idea, but I think that this episode could have been done better. Why does it take so long for Jane to find out that her life is being filmed and to start to defend herself against it? There are so many clues. I guess it was meant to be that way; it's easy to see that this story wasn't meant to be a serious story but a farce; but it was exaggerated too much in my opinion. However, there were some points that I liked very much, so it's not a bad episode in my opinion. The basic idea of the plot is good (see above). I liked the acting, especially Paul Bartel as the psychoanalyst and Mary Woronov as the nurse. It also has some jokes that I liked, for example Jane's suggesting that an Oedipus complex could be the source of her problems, the label of the button, or when Jane wants to tell something to her mother and her mother asks her to stop because she doesn't want to hear any spoilers.
All in all, this episode deserves seven points in my opinion.
Probably a remake of 'The Secret Cinema' (1968), also written and directed by Paul Bartel. But I'm not completely sure since I haven't seen the 1968 version - which might have been the inspiration for 'The Truman Show' since there is a similar plot element: the main character doesn't know that his / her life is being filmed.
It's an interesting idea, but I think that this episode could have been done better. Why does it take so long for Jane to find out that her life is being filmed and to start to defend herself against it? There are so many clues. I guess it was meant to be that way; it's easy to see that this story wasn't meant to be a serious story but a farce; but it was exaggerated too much in my opinion. However, there were some points that I liked very much, so it's not a bad episode in my opinion. The basic idea of the plot is good (see above). I liked the acting, especially Paul Bartel as the psychoanalyst and Mary Woronov as the nurse. It also has some jokes that I liked, for example Jane's suggesting that an Oedipus complex could be the source of her problems, the label of the button, or when Jane wants to tell something to her mother and her mother asks her to stop because she doesn't want to hear any spoilers.
All in all, this episode deserves seven points in my opinion.