I haven't watched it, but I think what the previous poster is getting at is that it is very metafictional. When watching it is worth thinking about how it is a film about film making, and about what this is implying about the nature of reality. In such works it is commonplace for the line between fiction and reality to become inextricably blurred, for example looking at the Wikipedia article I noticed this: "It may seem surprising that around sixty Hollywood celebrities agreed to play themselves."
So it is a film in which the actors are acting themselves, but how do you act yourself is the question? Is it actually possible for you to do a better job of acting yourself than if you were simply going about your daily routine? Is the author perhaps the suggesting that the world is a stage and that the people in it are the actors? (to paraphrase a Shakespeare quotation) In what ways is real life like a film, in everyday life can you think of instances where people play parts? Where they aren't their true selves?
Of course not all of this might be relevant to the film, as I must stress I haven't actually watched it, but I am guessing that some of it will be.
On a somewhat tangential note, another film with metafictional themes which is relevant to Whose Reality is
Adaptation by Charlie Kaufman. It is incredibly mind-screwy, as it is a film about a screenwriter trying to adapt a book who inserts himself into his own film, thus turning the film into a film about the process of adapting said book. Which then becomes a metaphor for how Charlie Kaufman has to adapt to the demands of his audience, and the work in order to successfully pull off the adaptation, how he does that is something I will leave as a surprise for those willing to submerge themselves in the postmodernist headtrip, that is this film.
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