Actors reflect their professional, social and personal reality during the pandemic (Netflix)
In the form of a satirical comedy, the movie “Bubble” invites us (The Bubble), written and directed by Judd Aptau, to enter the world of the film industry, during Corona pandemic.
This is an indirect invitation to reveal the filming and its scenes, which are taking place in the “Clifton House” hotel in London. A group of actors, administrators and staff working in the field of films who engage in an unconventional relationship, imposed by the conditions of the epidemic, which produced strict health and social laws, such as social distancing, periodic checks, masks and quarantine. The effects of the pandemic affected the film and entertainment sector. Those health laws are difficult to deal with in these areas. It was necessary to plan to save the situation, and to withdraw production operations from falling to the bottom and losing millions of dollars. The “bubble” is one such plan.
The story seems qualified to invent a new recipe in cinematic discourse. But it is not enough to raise the standards of quality and creativity. You may not even care regarding these criteria. The language circulated, here, swims in a variety of vocabulary, meaning satire and mockery in the face of the viewer, the actor and the producer together. They are all subject to directed capitalism within an artistic community, the values of which are linked to the type of communication and form of investment.
Here, we have a very ironic recipe for these values, floating on the lips of the actors who are immersed in an embarrassing moral confrontation with the audience and with themselves. Every actor has a hand in the film’s message line.Netflix) and its goals. The cast has become hostage to the production hand inside the hotel, given that their contracts do not allow them to leave before the work is completed, or else they will have to pay punitive damages amounting to millions of dollars. But these compensations will drag the actors beyond financial compensation. stay in Quarantine And the commitment of the characters to seclusion in their rooms for fourteen days, is a psychological and mental price that must be paid.
Thus, we see the protagonists of the story spinning in their own orbit, isolated and grumbling, resorting to sex, drugs, spiritual therapy sessions, and any entertainment that reflects the blessing of human communication. On the other hand, we see the producers’ concern and fears in front of the stagnant global markets due to the pandemic. They are looking for the success of the sixth edition of the series of films that will participate in the cast. They know that a new part will not add fun or interest to the viewer. It is an urgent need to invest in the world of entertainment, the restrictions of the pandemic imposed the shape of the impotent film industry in front of it, so the number of produced works disappeared for a long period of time, so there is no harm in the consumption of the profession, its makers, and even its viewers.
It must be said that the power of the Internet and the publicity space provided by social media platforms were a practice added to the rest of the practices that the producers of the work exploited, otherwise they would not have involved a girl (Iris Aptau) who has 120 million followers on the Internet. tik tok app With the rest of the actors participating in the imaginary tape that they are filming, knowing that this insertion of and commercial correction in it is a great deal of provocation and malice by the film’s producers, when they indicated, through Crystal Chris (the Tik Tok girl) to the position of the YouTube platform in front of the Tik Tok application, Which swept the world of social networking sites and the Internet. We hear Kristal commenting on this: “Does YouTube still exist?”
The role of the actors is to reflect their professional, social and personal reality during the period of the epidemic, and to impose strict health restrictions. Characters are employed in a funny way, filled with comedy and naivety, to the point where the audience can inquire regarding what is true or vice versa. Will the luxury in the decoration and the availability of all activities and entertainment services in the hotel make the viewer accept the difficulties facing the artists during the pandemic?
One of the characters says to Carol Cope (Karen Gillan), who was trying to send a distress call to the audience through the Crystal window of her personal account on Tik Tok, with the aim of helping her escape from the bubble: “The audience does not want to hear the complaints and grumblings of the actors; it does not compare to their real problems and the difficulty of their lives “.
If we want to pay a little attention to the personal lives of the actors that the film reflects on us, we will find that Carol suffers from the betrayal of her lover, and the justification for the latter is her absence and her preoccupation with herself and her work only. And we’ll find what a rising actor looks like, seeking fame and success by any means whatsoever with Sean (Kegan Michael Key), drug addict Dieter (Pedro Pascal), sycophant Lauren (Leslie Mann) and her ex-husband Dustin (David Duchovny), the sullen and controlling producer of any dialogue and script that doesn’t fit. His thoughts are bright. Here are signs that the work highlights through the characters of Lauren and Dustin, where the divorced children have a black-skinned adopted child who lives in his own world, hating and hating his neglectful parents who are far from him. The other side of the miserable life of adopted children, which we do not see directly on the screen, is something that calls for follow-up, on the one hand, and on the other hand, choosing an adopted child of brown skin is pure exploitation and professional flair in front of public opinion and global humanity. Finally, the director of the fictional film “Darren” (Fred Armisen), which reflects the nature of the weak and shaky director, is controlled by the production hand and the details of his work, so these problems were justifications for him and the viewer to be a sexual harasser searching for his lost male dominance elsewhere.
