The result is a drug that induces a state of bewildered suggestibility, which he forces on Kris (Amy Seimetz), a young video producer.

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The aim was to lampoon the suggestibility of public figures willing to repeat, with feeling, any nonsense they are told, the bogus gravity of much current-affairs television, the hypocritical voyeurism of media coverage of sex and crime, and a lot else besides.

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