Jimmy

Some readers may recall my post last month about how I didn’t think Paris Hilton was as immature and “ditsy” as the media portrays her, and now there’s a new documentary film proving just that.

The film, made by the daughter of Tom Petty, is called Paris, Not France and shows that the “real” Paris is much more than the “media” Paris that we’ve all heard about. Apparently the director was looking for an angle that nobody had every taken before when talking about Paris, and she came up with the angle of “Paris is actually a human” (my sarcastic words, not hers). CNN reports that the director said that this was “the only option left” for ways/angles to look at Paris, which makes me wonder if anyone ever thought that Paris had any brains at all until they were, in effect, “forced” into it by the fact that every other possibility had been examined. Perhaps I’m being overly cynical, but that’s the way I see it.

The reaction to the film is perhaps predictable in that the media doesn’t like it (because it paints them in a rather unfavorable light?) (although to give CNN credit they wrote what seemed to me to be a fairly unbiased story about the film, one of the few media outlets that I can find that did*) and regular (non-media) viewers seem to have had a better opinion of it (although not many people besides the media have seen it as it only had one showing at the Toronto International Film Festival a couple of weeks ago).

*I just found a news story on an Australian website that seemed a bit favorable. Overall, though, the top results on Google are mostly unfavorable.

All in all, I’m looking forward to seeing this film and being able to write a slightly more informed analysis, but from what I can tell so far, it seems that my assertion last month was very much correct.

Cheers!

-j

Posted in: Media and Arts, Media and Culture by jimmy2 / Tags: culture, films, media, paris hilton, pop culture