The Contestant

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Jakob F @RT09328015 10/24/2024 A disquieting and immersive reflection on one of the most extreme social experiments ever to take place, where one man’s hardship and isolation is contrived ad nauseam to push the limits of TV sans regard for the inhumanity it took, ultimately accenting the star-turned-victim’s superhuman endurance in defiance of his fellow man’s equal capacity for cruelty & compassion. See more Lars N @movie_douche 09/22/2024 More a horror film than anything else. Every time the audience laughs it send shivers down my spine. Sure it's a fascinating story but it lacks severely in any kind of hard question aimed at the people who tormented this guy for no apparent reason. See more Slick R @SlickReviewer 08/31/2024 Absolutely insane what this guy did, and he still wasn't a multi-millionaire. In America, if someone did this he would have sued the living heck out of the show. Or he would have won a million dollars each time he stayed in the room and completed each task. But I get it, this was way before The Real World, and this was the first reality TV game show in history. And it was in Japan, where they do this kind of crazy stuff all the time. See more Brad O @bradradio 07/16/2024 A fascinating look into how low and how high a human can go. See more Gareth D @HiGarethDavies 06/02/2024 A really fascinating look at both how exploitative the reality TV genre is (with this being one of the first of it's type) and how resilient humans are. See more Matt S @MattS70 05/11/2024 What a riveting documentary on the human spirit, almost makes me wonder if during the audition stage off "live off prizes" if the other contestats were in on it and Nasubi was always meant to "win". It just seemed horribly cruel that someone who was bullied would up being bullied and pushed to the extreme on a live show. I hated tge producer and at times had hoped Nasubi would've snapped and attacked him but Iam also glad Nasubi's life played in a way of becoming a humanitarian even at the expense of giving up initially on humanity itself. See more Read all reviews

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