This is a perfecrtly packaged piece of entertainment. A dystopia of grotesque economic inequality and exploitation, a cast of endearing and plucky misfiits out to better themselves and their families and escape their urban prisons, a film industry obscenely bloated with funding and profits, movies of action and spectacle where the exras are filmed fighing for survival against artifical alien monstrosities for rich financial rewards if they survive, a secret resistance within the industry helping the extras, unlikely alliances formed in the thick of battle, deeply moving connections with family and community. Honestly it's rare for a 'people fighting and dying for entertainment' story have so much defiantly uncynical-in-the-face-of-societal-horror heart. The build-up, the setting, the frenetic action, the self-regarding genius of the director behind it all are all absolutely pitch-perfect, and it all comes in just over five hours of listening time.