- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2012
- Countries:
- Predominant Genre:
Non-Fiction - Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- None
- Premiss:
- Billionaire couple constructs mansion inspired by Versailles. But their empire, fueled by the real-estate bubble and cheap money, falters.
- Themes:
- Alienation | Destiny | Emotional repression | Family | Identity | Loneliness | Love | Materialism | Narcissism | Personal | Personal change | Political | Snobbery | Solipsism | White culture | White supremacy
- Similar to:
- Unknown
- Review Format:
- DVD
Personal is Political
The usual White nonsense about success being about nothing more than hard work and dedication - as if racial, sexual & social snobbery did not exist. This issue of White guilt is never explored here; leaving the characters to speak only for their own, ignorant selves.
The rich Whites here spend their money in such a way that one wonders why the became rich in the first place. Both husband and wife spend money without too much thought until the current economic recession hits. The status symbols they buy are used to hide the blankness of the people concerned in their inability to see beyond the merely superficial and do something useful with their lives. They know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
These are not very interesting people whose problems are made more obvious by the recession: A lack of solidarity, humor & thrift in the desire to keep up appearances. It is almost as if Whites do not like each other much and, like the parasitic banks that caused the economic depression in the first place, are keen to exploit their hardship as much as complain and blame others for it.
This documentary offers information about the subjects but very little about the subject; leaving the audience to wonder what the film is really about since the bigger picture remains - lazily - unexplored. This is a typical problem with passionless explorations of White culture made by Whites: They are frightened to really engage in an anthropological exploration of themselves in case they find themselves staring into nothing but an abyss. This probably explains why Whites spend so much of their time focusing on other cultures - to occult their own.
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