Based on true events, several teenagers who are addicted to high society and luxury brands go to Hollywood stars to steal from their homes. In fact, this subject itself has a lot to explore, vanity, exaggeration, and satire on the perverted obsession with stars/famous brands in today's society. I feel that the director still wants to dig these profound things, but unfortunately these are said by the interview with the protagonist Marc, and it feels too superficial.
Marc, the only male protagonist, just transferred to this high school, and feels a little inferior, saying that he is not satisfied with his appearance. Rebecca was the first friend to talk to him and introduce him to her. The two and other friends went to the Internet to find the star's address, and then went to the star's home to steal. After stealing, he also took a particularly high-profile photo and put it on the Internet to show off. From the beginning, I was a little worried and feared, but it is only natural that Marc is a character who can be tapped. When I asked him why you thought Rebecca was so obsessed with brand names at the last visit, Marc said she might just be empty (I don't remember the original sentence, maybe that's what it meant). At the same time, he mentioned a detail, saying that he didn't have many friends on Facebook, and since he posted a bunch of party brand photos, there were N hundred people who added him as a friend.
But apart from Marc's last few interviews, 2/3 of the film is the piles of clothes, shoes and bags from various celebrities. I can't help but think of the director's other film, Marie Antoinette, which is also not mentioned on the set screen. Every detail completely restores the sense of luxury, but too much pursuit of the picture makes the story very weak. This film is exactly the same, and I have visited too many stars' homes and they are all the same. In the end, what I can remember after watching it is the feeling that the star's house is really big.
As Emma Watson's first work after Harry Potter, she is not actually a heroine, but I always thought she was a heroine in the previous publicity. I read one of her interviews saying that she actually hates the character she plays and is hypocritical, but she still feels the character and tries to figure out her inner world. In terms of hatred, Emma is really good at acting, at least I'm the girl named Nicki that I hated from her appearance to the end. However, none of the women in this group was sympathetic and likable, and Marc at least felt that there was a tendency to turn back.
Emma said that when she heard it was director Sofia, she took the script without hesitation. It's a pity that this work is not even worse than her amazing "Lost in Tokyo" work.
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