Starsuckers (UK Docu 2009)

http://www.starsuckersmovie.com/ (go there & dig a bit deeper...)

Celebrity culture hasn't just invaded the lives of 'Heat'-stricken soap stars flopping between bar and rehab with the paparazzi on their tails. According to Chris Atkins' mischievous and eloquently angry investigation into the causes and cost of our obsession with fame, it's colonised consciousness of far too many all around this world, remoulded the media and sold us a series of impossible & hypocritical dellusions. Atkins' thesis: this new, non news-based form of 'news' operates as a sly form of "social control", and in five fascinating lessons he deconstructs the celebrity-industrial complex to reveal who's doing to what to who, and why...
Verdict
This controversial(it got some harsh reviews: see below) provocative, proudly partisan but consistently entertaining doc is compulsory viewing not just for everyone working within the media, but for anyone who watches TV, reads the papers, surfs the net or has to walk down a city street... to take one closer look...

Wow what a load of crap!
6 May 2010 | by Jon Death (United States)
...Typically not! Which is exactly what this documentary fails to acknowledge. They completely ignore the reality of just how much people actually care and jump right into the reality of corporate brainwashing in their actions. That's the truth of these things, there's two realities. The corporate reality and the individual reality. For some reason, these people can't seem to understand this so they make the most obnoxious, arrogant, foundation lacking claims they can.
This really isn't a documentary, it's a propaganda film. They showcase the morons that buy into everything they see on television or read in corporate publications while editing out the population smart enough to read a contract before signing it. This is nothing more than an insult, avoid it at all costs. The film maker set out with the intention of selling a lie while insisting documentary. It's propaganda....

HOMEVER before watching it read a few more:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1510934/usercomments
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1510934/externalreviews

THE FILM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1510934/
DIRECTOR
Chris Atkins
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0040564/
http://thethirdestate.net/2009/11/an-interview-with-chris-atkins/

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[pgbcca1]

famous people get attention and attention usually translates as importance or adoration

kids see that others adore famous people and i think thats what everyone wants, to be adored, to be loved and thats why i think people want to be famous for the wrong reasons.....they dont receive this form of love in their life already