Meta-documentaries on Emirates airlines
It’s an interesting world we live in when on an Emirates flight, I get to watch 2 meta-documentaries deconstructing modern consumerist society while flying to the city that epitomizes commercialism: Dubai. On the 15 hour flight from San Francisco to Dubai on Emirates, I watched Exit Through the Giftshop and The Greatest Movie Ever Sold , the Morgan Spurlock film. Both are worth seeing. Recently, there’s been a rise in meta-documentaries. The already postmodern film Tropic Thunder had a making-of film titled Rain of Madness . This is a parody of the documentary Hearts of Darkness , which was a documentary by Francis Ford Coppola about the making of Apocalypse Now . However, I should point out that these film choices are not quite as random of an entertainment selection as having Brian O'Nolan’s modernist At Swim-Two-Birds as an audio book on Delta when I flew from SFO to New York in August.