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Being There
Comedy, Drama
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy understated social satire about how confidence, projection, and media-shaped thinking can be mistaken for wisdom.
- Tone
- satirical, contemplative, bittersweet
- Payoff
- amusement, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- gentle
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- identity, media influence, class, misinterpretation, social isolation
- Setting
- late twentieth-century America, affluent urban home and political circles
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