It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.
It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.
Television is simply automated daydreaming.
When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.
The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
It was sort of his 'Brando' moment - his very 'method' moment. He just absorbed it and continued on.
Television is intensely personal.
I think there's a huge amount of magic on television, which is slightly vapid: there's no real meaning or message behind it; it is simply a trick.
It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.