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An interesting point of view from a model whose young face invades the world of fashion and she falls in love with the photographer.
Rated 3.5/5 Stars •
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/20/23
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The film's plot is based on the fashion industry, and it describes how the industry works in real life. How superficial the industry is, how superficial its workers and leaders are, and therefore also how superficial an impact, it has on the rest of society.
The primary role is not played by a person, but instead by The Model; with its infantile, narcissistic and self-absorbed culture, which slowly, but surely, strengthens the formlessness of our society. The secondary lead role, is played by the female actor Maria Palm, who portrays the character Emma, a danish teenager, who travels to Paris, in order to become a model. The name Emma is originally a short form of Germanic names that began with the element sleeve meaning "whole" or "universal". So my interpretation, is that Emma, embraces the whole mentality of the model industry and, as a consequence, also embodies the lack of personal development, in our infantile popular culture.
The other characters are more or less, in orbit around Emma, and so they either try to use or abuse her, like the hungry satellites, of external stimuli that they have evolved into. So basically, they represent the rest of us, in orbit around the models and celebrities we watch on a screen.
Perhaps one could state that our society has lost its traditional context. And so this movie, describe what happens in the context of no context, nothing.
The Model, is a film that should be followed up with a debate, about where the society is headed. For the point of the film is simple; us the people, has allowed, to enter this lack of the same Limbo-Life, where all we do, is to seek out, our next empty pleasure.
Our society model has become dysfunctional. It is not developing us in a natural manner, into mature individuals. Instead, it keeps us locked, in infantile behaviour.
We need a new society model. Or perhaps, in reality, part of the old.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/26/23
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another film that glamourizes the industry and blames the model for the abuses she encounters.
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
01/12/23
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Goes to show how sh*ty the model industry is.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/06/23
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Crash and burn story of a young woman in the fashion industry. Left more to be desired. Weak story. Stereotyped male roles. Very obviously aimed at the bewildered and confused world of young women who so often pin their hopes and dreams on making it as a fashion model.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
02/23/23
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The Model [Matthiesen, 2016] Captures the horror behind the glam of high fashion. 6/10
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/13/23
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