Addict Story: "Stories" Promised to Discover Generation Z, But Didn't Exit Instagram

With the pretense of bringing the Z-generation to the screen, "Stories" is just a collection of stories that show what Boomer Boomer Language calls today's youth, as smart and as awkward as any other youth before it. Much more than "Stories" define their experience as a different story, it demonstrates how similar they are to us

Addict Story: "Stories" Promised to Discover Generation Z, But Didn't Exit Instagram

Fashions come and go, stars are born and die, but the pace of this process is increasing. The intergenerational gap between the Boomers and the X generation was for rupture, the new technologies and the socio-economic realities made the Y generation a group that builds its life against completely different premises. And what about our little brothers? They are called a different letter. We grew up with technology, they were born into it.

"Stories," a new documentary series by director Julie Schelez that aired last night at Broadcasting Corporation 11, seeks to crack this generation through integrated monologues in Instagram footage. The hopes of the series were high, also thanks to her "big sister" - Yair Agmon's "YYY" and Tzil Avraham, which also aired in the corporation a few months ago, was comprehensive, smart and friendly, creative both in terms of content and form, and out of it - even if not always I agreed to surgery - with more concepts to understand these gaps. Will the little sister be able to do it herself?

Everyone talks about peace, nobody talks about justice. Or the obvious election fraud

Connected style. Stories (screenshot)

Stories (Photo: here 11, screenshot)

The opening promises a lot: "Generation Z: Born after 1996. They are the first generation born into the smartphone world. They spend an average of about eight hours a day in front of the screen. 1 in 3 Z generation experiences loneliness. 1 in 5 takes Antidepressants. If you're watching a series on the TV, you probably were born before 1996. Don't be alarmed, that's not your story. It's their story. " The opening does startle (I watched the iPad. What does that mean for me?). Prepare us for a big market, but it doesn't really come; there really isn't anything to be scared of, not if you remember your adolescence.

This is what the sociological details add up to, and pass to first-person confessions, in the "connected" style, with the camera exchanging with Instagram documentation. The five stories that accompany the program, as mentioned, are not necessarily frightening (in general, there is no point in being frightened of young people. Older people with power and money can do much more harm): Desi, comes out with a question that shoots and writes poetry; Gal, a girl who reinvented herself as Binyamina's Trap star and surrounding; A real who plays with his gender visibility and looks for thrills; Enlightened who tries to rebuild his life after an offense in which he was involved; And Noa, a service girl who enjoys freedom and does not want a permanent relationship.

Everyone is interesting, everyone is brave, but most of all: everyone has Instagram, and to admit the truth - focusing on this characterization lies in the disappointing weak point of "Stories." With the exception of Instagram and the role the network plays in their lives, no common generic feature (except for opening) or an element that defines their life as "alarming" or not is presented in relation to this bunch. Some of these characters, could equally well be ten years older and belong "to another generation." Because the series completely avoids analysis or external looks, the five stories - at least in the first two episodes - remain a likable but also very loose sequence that has difficulty saying anything significant beyond the discussion of the need for attention and fluidity of some basic concepts. It could have been far more fascinating.

With the pretense of portraying and bringing to the screen this generation, "Stories" is a collection of stories that show that what is known as Boomerang's "Youth of the Day" is as good, as smart and embarrassing as any other youth before it. Much more than "Stories" define their experience as a different story, it demonstrates precisely how similar they really are to us.