Death Watch story
In a future where death from illness has become rare, a terminally ill woman becomes a reluctant reality television star.
13 total · 2 choice · 6 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| reality television in society | choice | Kathryn agreed to let make a reality television show out of her death from an incurable disease in exchange for $600,000. |
| what if my life was secretly stage managed | choice | Kathryn's life was broadcast on television without her knowing, and her companion Roddy was responsible for ensuring that the reality of her situation was concealed from her. |
| betrayal | major | Roddy gained Kathryn's trust and he accompanied her while she was on the run but the whole time he was secretly recording her for the reality TV show. |
| coping with a terminal illness | major | The film followed Kathryn as she succumbed to an unspecified incurable disease. |
| coping with being famous | major | Kathryn became an instant celebrity upon being diagnosed with a terminally illness and made the star of a reality TV show. |
| invasion of privacy | major | Roddy betrayed Kathryn's trust by recording her for a reality TV show using a secret camera installed in his eyeball. |
| remorse | major | Roddy came to see that he was wrong to have secretly filmed Kathryn for the reality TV show. |
| seeing the error of one's ways | major | Roddy came to see that he was wrong to have secretly filmed Kathryn for the reality TV show. |
| cure for cancer | minor | Kathryn's doctor mentioned in passing how people no longer died from cancer. |
| father and daughter | minor | Kathryn went to meet her father in a care facility but he didn't remember her. |