The night a controversial Hollywood personality gets an Oscar for
movie best director he is taken hostage by a couple of psychopaths that
have been killing people across the US for no reason. They want to use
the director as a cover for their crimes, to force him to explain that
they’d been influenced by his movies, and thus escape the punishment of
death. They demand for TV cameras and force the entire country to watch.
Rather than take full responsibility for their actions, the director
gets them to agree to a debate. In the process most of the hostages as
well as one of the killers get killed when shootouts begin. Blame is
shifted from place to place and several law suits are filed.
The story is about relating movies (art) and society (reality). Is a
movie a mirror of society as claimed by the director, or is society
shaped by movies, as most of the media reporting the director and the
event tended to portray? It also touches the delicate work of policing
an American city like L. A. with various racial and other interest
groups, where punishment for crime have to be dealt with differently
according to interest group, with references to the Rodney King riots
and the O. J. Simpson trial.
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