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In common with The Truman Show , the film eventually evolves into a melodramatic revolt against a repressive corporate patriarch, here an executive (Rob Reiner) who doesn't want to turn off the cameras and leave Ed alone when Ed's life is in a shambles but his ratings are high.
shambles ( n .) A butcher's stall and table where meat is displayed.
We have made a shambles of any pretense of seriousness and dignity.
The army is in shambles, and large sections of the country have been running themselves, without oversight from the central government.
I closed the business down in the shambles that it was, swept everything clean, moved to Santa Fe and ...