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A gay schoolteacher, Jay is brutally murdered and the story begins with a reality TV show that documents Jay's death. While the show features his death, grieving family, interviews with colleagues and Jay's lover, it soon becomes clear that this concept of "reality" owes much to the entertainment value of the material being shot, and the expectations of the television audience. The scenes of grieving family and a tearful colleague are skillfully orchestrated for this "reality show" and Jay's mother, who lamented in the show, was fixing her makeup to be ready for her scene. JAY, with its mise-en-abyme of reality dissolving into infinite layers of media images and vice-versa, is also a meditation on the ways in which the other world is produced everyday as a spectacle and audiences who prefer their entertainment to be as crazy as their lived reality.
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