The (Un)reality Show, a novel by Clara Ng

Imagine having these people as roomates…
This is a story about eight ordinary people (as television creative teams think)
… choose randomly (as tv producer thinks, too)
… without audition…
… to live together in a house for shooting, then being watched by millions Indonesians, as entertainment, getting high rating, increasing tv image, also
covering the curiosity to see what happen when those people don’t act exactly like the script and start to act like in reality
… as the reality did not turn out exactly as it had been expected
Because in the end, this is…

THE (UN)REALITY SHOW

I love this book. It’s so interesting – writing in script form on few parts. The idea is unthinkable but it happen in reality. I am surprised Clara Ng made sensitive characters. Again (after Gerhana Kembar) – Feivel and Enrico – those are gay couple. Also Azuza, a 10 years old girl who understand everything about sex. EVERYTHING.

The interactions are nice. Eight strangers live together in a house foe seven weeks. They would have different personalities and feel uncomfort with this, but they still can adapt to each other (with their own adaptation style). I think Feivel will Tara in the end. Or Primus. That’s all wrong!!! Clara Ng wrote twist story.

The best part is: THE ENDING! I really love the ending. SPOILER ALERT! Actually, all eight people is ONE person, in reality. Including tv crews, audience, their friends and doctors. They all are split characters from Hannah Indah Desyanti. Yeah, we know MPD – Multiple Personality Disorder, but here it has new name – DID, Dissosiative Identity Disorder. Same meaning, different name. This remind me of Billy with 43 personalities or Sybil with 16 personalities. I don’t know how many characters Hannah has. Even her psychiatrist and lawyer seems like another characters of her.

To me, there is second twist here. Hannah’s story is made to movie.is it possible if all the actors and actresses are Hannah’s, too which means, that this whole book is Hannah’s writing?

Who knows? (except Clara Ng herself)…