Rent-a-friend

• Main Authors: Chia, Terence, Lim, Jeanette Wan Yan, Nashita Binte Kamir, Yap, Jun Hua
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Film
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50010
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In a socially dysfunctional future not too far away, the rapid emergence and acceptance of rent-a-friend agencies bring to light a worrying fragility of human relationships as a material commodity. Greg is a professional “friend”. For a fee, he will, and can perform a variety of social roles ranging from a boyfriend, to a far-flung relative. Greg’s sister, Amanda, is vehemently opposed against her brother’s occupation, seeing it as demeaning of human relationships. However, it is only through Malcolm, a client who rents Greg to accompany him in his final moments, that Greg begins to see the rationality of Amanda’s words.