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Slightly related: I once watched a documentary about a man managing an acting agency where people hired someone to act as a daughter, parent, etc. When he fina
by kiba 10y ago
Slightly related: I once watched a documentary about a man managing an acting agency where people hired someone to act as a daughter, parent, etc.
When he finally disclosed his business to his wife, she's like, "who care?"
All that dramatic tension just melted away.
Hiring people to simply talk to seems like yet another manifestation of whatever is happening in Japanese society.
- mc32 10y agoIn some places people hire "mourners" others hire other people to add "volume" to their events. But these aren't as much psychological fillers as much as devices to save face.
- reitanqild 10y agoMourners have been known for thousands of years already I think.
- gist 10y agoReminds me of "claque" people hired as professional applauders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claque
- trentmb 10y ago> I once watched a documentary about a man managing an acting agency where people hired someone to act as a daughter, parent, etc. Made me think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche,_New_York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche,_New_York
- huskyr 10y agoYes, wonderful movie. Very weird the first time you watch it, but when time passes by, and you re-watch it, everything just clicks into place.
- FeteCommuniste 10y agoNot a documentary, but an interesting film along similar lines: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1859446/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1859446/
- Mz 10y agoIn America, this seems to be something only marginalized peoples do. In "Mayflower Madame," she says that some of their regular clients hired her escorts not for sex but to play their girlfriend at family events, like weddings, because they were closeted gays. In one case, the family liked his hired girlfriend so much they began encouraging them to get married, which led to them having to manufacture a dramatic breakup so this gay man would stop getting pressure to marry the call girl he had hired to play his girlfriend at family events.
- rzzzt 10y agoWasn't this a comedy-drama-sort of feature film where his wife doesn't know, and suspects he's having an affair because of all the secrecy surrounding his job? I could swear I saw something similar on TV a few years ago, but can't find the title of it based on the obvious keywords. EDIT: Found the documentary: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3242460/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3242460/