hyperreality

• This mode aims for hyperreality, for an almost unbearable intensity. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 06 - December 1999
• Extensive use of documents—letters, journals, newspaper pieces—gives the tale a firm grounding in the textures of everyday life, in fact a kind of hyperreality, and the telling is at a remove: matter-of-fact, almost clinical. —  FSF,July2005
• Far more than providing just a novel gimmicky entree into depressing subject matter, however, the film's visual presentation helps capture the distorted hyperreality experienced by many in combat, as well as the intangibles of post-traumatic stress disorder. —  SF360
• Instead people live in the "hyperreality" of simulations in which images, spectacles, and the play of signs replace the concepts of production and class conflict as key constituents of contemporary societies. —  GreenCine Daily
• "You know you've got a man hanging from your ceiling?" at Linda's dungeon / pad-the film is firmly grounded in a reality familiar to those living in hyperreality. —  The House Next Door

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