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Either reality, or show
On October 15, all of America caught a balloons accidentally breaking off in Colorado with a six -year -old boy on board. Helium inflated aircraft, similar to a hat with a high -cut leg, was designed by the father of the family for amateur meteorological observations. And then take the probes ready to launch and get rid of it. And after some time, the parents raised the alarm: the youngest son was nowhere, only as he flew on the ball. So the older children saw how he climbed there.
The child is in mortal danger! Helicopters of the National Guard Colorado climbed into the air. Denver International Airport canceled departures and landings. The largest national television companies threw all the other news and for two hours led a direct report on the pursuit of a balloon. Professional rescuers discussed the methods of a compulsory safe planting of a balloon: to plant a man on a “hat”, hang a load ...
Finally, the "flying load" landed itself. Rescuers rushed to the strangled ball - there was no boy inside. Immediately someone recalled that from the ball, when he was in the air, as if something fell out. Organized the search for a dead, smashed body ...
After another two hours, Falcon was found. He did not fly anywhere, but hid in the garage from the father screaming on him.
The country let out a sigh of relief. The sheriff of the county congratulated his family on the Happy end. In the evening, the happy family participated in the Larry King show, which this time was replaced by Wolf Blitzer. The guests held on to the birthday - not everyone manages to get into such a program! It was then that a puncture occurred. After the boy confirmed that he heard his parents called him, his father asked: "So you didn’t get out?" “You told me that we are doing this for the show,” the boy said.
Having looked at the program, the sheriff started a criminal case and made a search in the Hinov House. During the search, documents were discovered that the spouses were negotiating with a large television company on the project of their own reality show. The protocol of telephone connections demonstrated: before calling 911, the Hins were associated with this very television company. And here is the last news: the boy’s mother admitted the investigation that he and her husband deliberately misled the rescuers and the press.
Mystification of this kind is not uncommon. But in the plot with a balloon there are details that give a symbolic meaning to a stupid draw.
Hina turned out to be not a very ordinary family. Once they participated in the reality show "Exchange of wives." In this program, women change places for a week - not on a marital bed, of course, but in everything else they act as the mother of the family in a strange house. Khinom liked this occupation so much that they began to offer television companies the ideas of their own reality show. The mystification with the balloon was a way to interest producers.
What happened to this family is usually called "hooked on the Ostankino needle" or "TV in the blood." Intoxication is popular. A person subjected to such a variety of poisoning can no longer live an ordinary life. It seems to him that real life is only there, on the other side of the screen. He perceives oblivion as a tragedy.
With current technologies, the border is conditional. Hulio Cortasara has the story "Ascolotl", whose hero comes to the aquarium day and, bewitched by the appearance of bizarre fish, peers into her gold, bottomless eyes. In the end, he himself turns into an axolotl and now from the inside of the aquarium is watching a person attached to the glass. A moment of transformation is elusive, a person flows into the fish unnoticed by himself.
More recently, Russians excited the Aquarium of the House. The inhabitants of the carts went out "in real life", but continued to live according to the laws of the genre. And they are not alone. The president and prime minister, meeting with officials, play a clumsy performance in front of cameras. "What measures are taken for the good of the people?" - Strictly asks the first person. “For the good of the people,” the official reports, “measures are taken by the most energetic!” What is not a reality show, but at the same time - and why is it not reality?
Either television is a report on the event, or the event is staged so that it can be shown on television. Illusory reality, but the other is gone.
When Vasily Aksyonov wrote the Island of Crimea, technologies that allow a report in real time, did not reach the current peaks. The reporters of the Ti-Vi-Mig television company climb into the very fake, but, a striking business, they themselves do not believe in the reality of what is happening:
“A strange action of the landing connection,” the famous commentator Bob Kolenko wheezed, closing his elbow, his face was broken into the blood, he was sewing behind him, sticking the trunk of a carbine under his chin, the unperturbed “blue takes”, but Bob Kolenko saw the eye of the surviving chamber and therefore continued to wheeze: a strange game, imitation of funds for the funds of the attack attack. Mass media. You see, gentlemen, this boy strangles me with the trunk of his carbine. He seems to accept this game too seriously ...
If until recently the audience longed for the spectacles of reality, now for her there is only a spectacle.
The Khinov family accidentally discovered the wrong side of this reality show. For this, they will now be dried to the fullest.