Somewhere in the not-so-distant future, the screwed-up residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the Enfield Tennis Academy search for the master copy of a movie so dangerously entertaining that its viewers die in a state of catatonic bliss. Explores essential questions about what entertainment is, why we need it, and what it says about who we are
DFW's explicitly expressed politics views were dubious, to say the least. However, his masterpiece is a brutal depiction of the devastating impact of capitalism on the individual.
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