Should you watch Generation Wealth?
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Generation Wealth
Documentary · 2018
Over the past 25 years, Lauren Greenfield's documentary photography and film projects have explored youth culture, gender, body image, and affluence. Underscoring the ever-increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots, portraits reveal a focus on cultivating image over substance, where subjects unable to attain actual wealth instead settle for its trappings, no matter their ability to pay for it.
The sides of Generation Wealth
- Twenty-five years of Lauren Greenfield's photos
- People chasing the look of wealth
- The photographer's own family
Generation Wealth is good for you if…
- you want real people telling how money took over their lives.
- you like questioning what money and status do to us.
- you like a filmmaker who also looks at money in her own family.
Generation Wealth is bad for you if…
- you can't watch debt, addiction and broken families on screen.
- you lose track when a film jumps between dozens of people over 25 years.
About: money · image · excess
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