Mock cinema vertite about a young filmmakers consternation at finding 'truth' and putting it on film. Insightfully examines how we define reality, how our perceptions can cloud it, and whether it is really possible to show it on film. Probably to talky for most, but still quite thought provoking. Filled with some really offbeat ideas and camerawork. Among them: filming the faces of people at a bus stop while we hear excerpts from the McCarthy hearings. Also photographing a entire night of tv viewing each minute and then playing them back frame by frame. A very low budget movie, made by some very young filmmakers, with a very original point of view.

The only truth he seems to find in the end, is that his life is quite meaningless and empty.. The film wraps up with the death of a relative he didn't know and his apartment being robbed. That's the real truth, that's reality. If you thought "nothing happens" or it was "boring", that's kind of the point. This is his life day after day. The question is, would you rather watch it or live it?

I don't know why this rather dull piece of cinema verite is so famous. Perhaps you had to be there - in the sixties I mean.

A man films his own life for a week or so and in the process loses his girlfriend. There are some effective moments - like when he films an endless row of elderly people sitting on park benches, and when he films, in fast motion, what he watched on television one evening.

But the long, self-indulgent, angst-ridden diatribes at the camera bored me to tears.

It is quite convincing though - so it is surprising to learn that it was scripted and acted. A curiosity piece that is mercifully short.