(ANSA) - VENICE, 05 SEPT - Life, hearts and likes, emojis, the hacking of smartphones, the value of life measured with the follower index, never mind if you have no talent because what matters is appearance.
It is the dictatorship, whether we like it or not, of the social media generation, of influencers who are good at everything, ready to give you tips on how to cook, how to dress, how to play, what music to listen to.
And that's the only way you are in Mainstream, at the bottom of your time.
Gia Coppola, 33, a grandfather named Francis Ford, an aunt named Sofia, therefore cinema nelsangue, is in Venice (where she presented Palo Alto in 2013) with her second film.
It is in competition at Horizons with Mainstream, a film applauded just now at the premiere, presenting the director and its protagonist Maya Thurman (daughter of Uma and Ethan Hawke) while in connection there is Nat Wolff, absent the protagonist Andrew Garfield.
"I wanted to tell a story immersed in the culture of my generation and today's twenties, the manipulation, the influence of social media, I began to explore that world and confessed that I was full of prejudices that gradually vanished.
With this story I tried to enter into what is the cultural dimension of our time but I want to say that there are no judgments. It was me and my cast ready to hate these people, but then we only represented them ".
At the center there is Instagram, Youtube, TikTok, the empty, funny, witty videos, without rhyme or reason that hypnotize today's kids, maybe they orient their way of being, of dressing, of putting on make-up, they elevate to the personality of the non-talent and are ready change idol with a wave of thumbs down.
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