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terrific satire
This is a brilliant satire on the blurring of the line between TV and reality.

When life has become so dull and tame that millions fixate on TV as an alternate, this is precisely the kind of medicine we need.

Betty is a downtrodden but ever-optimistic waitress whose life shuttles between the humdrum (her job) and the abusive (her husband).

Her only refuge is a medical soap, which seems not only better but more real than her own.

When her husband the abuser himself is abused--right out of the picture--she cracks, and pursues her dream: the soap opera, which she now thinks is real.

Miraculously, she gets her foot in both the real medical world and the soap opera world (she can't tell the two apart).

Eventually, reality catches up, destroying her delusions, but (in the way of all good romance and comedy) allowing her to make her illusions real.

Interestingly, the most hard-bitten and seemingly realistic characters, the hit men, turn out to be the most deluded and fantasy-obsessed.

First-rate satire throughout.

SURPRISINGLY GOOD
I have to admit that at first I did not know what to expect from the film, but as it turns out it was a very pleasant surprise!
Nurse Betty, brings to the screen the story of a young woman from Kansas who after witnessing her husband's gruesome death goes into shock and believes she is living in the world of her favorite soap opera with all that that entails. Things get a bit more complicated when her husband's murderers come after her...
Renee Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, and the rest of the cast (with the exception of Chris Rock) carry out their performances very well!
The only major setback is in relation to Chris Rock, who overdoes it with his overly disruptive character, thus becoming annoying and tiring very early on.
In a nutshell, though not a masterpiece, Nurse Betty will provide for an evening's entertainment, though you might want to stop short of buying it.


beating the drum
Years ago, there was a film, Il Successo, about a man (played by Vittorio Gassman) who had inside information about a land deal and had a chance to make a fortune and leave behind his middle-class existence. He borrows money from his friends and it isn't enough. He borrows money from less reputable sources and it still isn't enough. He goes on sinking lower and lower borrowing money. One imagines that something like that happened with this film. The filmmaker borrowed money and didn't get enough, so he borrowed again and again, including money from Propaganda Films. The price of that borrowing must have been to shoehorn into this movie some blatant propaganda that was totally ad hoc and repulsive. Even if one agrees with the causes he was beating the drum for, it is embarrassing to see one's causes promoted in so revolting a manner. And it is sad to see such a potentially delightful screwball comedy ruined by politicizing it.
But this is just speculation. Maybe the filmmaker or screenwriter did this because he didn't know any better or because he just wanted to help the cause.
Some causes need to be protected from their friends.

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