Brooke Shields seems like a delightful, intelligent person with lots of humour and charm. Undoubtedly famous some decades ago although mostly in the US and they may have exaggerated her international fame a bit (maybe living in a bubble are we?), but we get the point. Learning about her childhood was interesting and it must have been quite challenging to grow up in that kind of environment. Quite remarkable that she made it through in one piece even though it took its toll psychologically speaking.
The documentary turns a bit unbalanced at times with several in her entourage quite aggressively pushing the female victim narrative over and over again. It's fair to mention once or twice that her experiences can be seen as an example of how many women have been suppressed in show biz, but it seems they are trying to force every mishap of women to fit into this particular world view, causing the viewer to take the overall message less seriously because the bio turns into an agenda instead of just objectively show the many challenges she faced and let the viewer decide for themselves (wasn't that what much of the message was about - making your own opinions?)
Having supportive friends is important, but some of these people don't exactly seem to be particularly balanced in their world view and one have to start wonder how healthy it could be if you're constantly being told by your supportive friends that everything bad that happened to you is 100% because of the rest of the world and the patriarchal system etc. It's nothing you could have done differently, you're just a victim. That aspect of feminism can be quite one-sided and toxic. Wasn't the mother perhaps the biggest reason for the difficult childhood? She was mostly excused, which is fine, but then they can't just go about judging everyone else instead. Also, where's the comment that a pretty woman wasn't/isn't allowed to be funny by society coming from? Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox to name a few - wasn't being encouraged to be funny a big part of their success in many of their roles? So many contradictions and strawmen throughout this documentary.
Brooke herself seemed more balanced than many of the more activist types in her bio, although revelations such as her ex-husband Agassi destroyed all of his tennis trophies out of jealousy because Brooke licked Joey Tribbiani's hand in a (very funny) Friends episode came off as a bit petty and unnecessary, strongly insinuating him being a maniac.
Brooke's eyes looked quite frightened, spooked and unsettled during most of the bio but at the very end when she was speaking about taking action and finding a purpose they increasingly sharpened and sparkled. Good to see.
The documentary turns a bit unbalanced at times with several in her entourage quite aggressively pushing the female victim narrative over and over again. It's fair to mention once or twice that her experiences can be seen as an example of how many women have been suppressed in show biz, but it seems they are trying to force every mishap of women to fit into this particular world view, causing the viewer to take the overall message less seriously because the bio turns into an agenda instead of just objectively show the many challenges she faced and let the viewer decide for themselves (wasn't that what much of the message was about - making your own opinions?)
Having supportive friends is important, but some of these people don't exactly seem to be particularly balanced in their world view and one have to start wonder how healthy it could be if you're constantly being told by your supportive friends that everything bad that happened to you is 100% because of the rest of the world and the patriarchal system etc. It's nothing you could have done differently, you're just a victim. That aspect of feminism can be quite one-sided and toxic. Wasn't the mother perhaps the biggest reason for the difficult childhood? She was mostly excused, which is fine, but then they can't just go about judging everyone else instead. Also, where's the comment that a pretty woman wasn't/isn't allowed to be funny by society coming from? Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox to name a few - wasn't being encouraged to be funny a big part of their success in many of their roles? So many contradictions and strawmen throughout this documentary.
Brooke herself seemed more balanced than many of the more activist types in her bio, although revelations such as her ex-husband Agassi destroyed all of his tennis trophies out of jealousy because Brooke licked Joey Tribbiani's hand in a (very funny) Friends episode came off as a bit petty and unnecessary, strongly insinuating him being a maniac.
Brooke's eyes looked quite frightened, spooked and unsettled during most of the bio but at the very end when she was speaking about taking action and finding a purpose they increasingly sharpened and sparkled. Good to see.