Perhaps they want you to ask yourself if maybe you live in a world that has been constructed for you. Maybe all of the mundane theatrics that you go through each and every day are just a perversion of what’s real.

I had a startling realization when watching “Titicut Follies” that what was on screen was not an allegory or a metaphor or a microcosm or a parody of the real world. What I was seeing WAS the real world unvarnished, as much as any ordinary, mundane moment, like washing dishes or filling out a form. Wiseman’s other cinema verite documentaries also convey this sort of insight.

I had a similar feeling when watching Dogtooth.

“We’re all Bozos on this bus.” — Firesign Theater