Gurpreet boulton

A masterpiece of a drama of the world of a woman in search for a better life. I always felt this story was hugely under rated. Strange as British dramas are just the best. A must see and must read

The film is brilliant if you view from the eye of the director. It’s artistic and a story well put together with the twist of the dark side of the movie business that the very few see from the outside. Although it’s quite out there for many it probably isn’t far removed from the truth. The movie business has evolved over the years and things were and still are experimental on the whole when creativity happens on screen. I can’t help but think though that the film makers were high on ecstasy throughout, and who wouldn’t be when you think of what it must take to create a movie like this? full of hedonism, fantasy, glimpses of the desperation to be valued and recognised as someone who matters in quite frankly a world that is pure illusion, escapist and exploitative. I liked how the range of parallels are thrown together where troubled characters such as Margot Robbie are ill valued as highly talented individuals, reduced to an easy to exploit sex symbol. Poverty and troubled pasts create however sometimes the most gifted performers in show business, and the film reflects this well through the central characters, all of whom seek recognition and love from the industry- that is short lived and incredibly fickle. It is a story of fate and how for many who you might think deserve the recognition for their talent don’t necessarily get it, and yet for others whom maybe stacked against the odds somehow fall into the business regardless because that was their destiny. The dream that so many dream of the beauty of cinema is in reality a world of psychedelic cocktail of personalities with their own dreams and ambitions. A mix of highly toxic to euphoric and unfortunately ruled by the dollar and the endless greed that goes with it. The stars shine and eventually fade until more stars shine and fade again. And so it continues as spectators watch, and escape into the abyss that is the screen, and further into their own fantasies..