Like many born in the late 1990s, Paris was a distant memory of the embodiment of the "spoiled rich girl". She was ditzy, media savvy and cunning. I was too young to ever be interested about her life in the 2000s but presently, I viewed her nothing more than as a smart businesswoman who knows how to build a very profitable empire of her image similar to the likes of Kim Kardashian. In short, no one of particular interest to me but was living a very materialistic but presumably happy life.
In the documentary, it reveals a lot more about her childhood and what triggered her desire to create this empire in spite of being perfectly able to live an extremely high standard of living with her inheritance and any money she would have made during the early '00s. Yes, Paris is an executive producer on the documentary which led me dock a few stars on the bias she would have had on the documentary and another was docked from the straying away but understable reasons behind not pressing more substantial questions on some of the interviewees. However, I think it's human nature to not want to see people suffer and be vulnerable when it's obviously painful, even if it's a rich, young, conventionally attractive heiress.
In many ways, her fixation on accumulating wealth is tied to her painful adolescence, Yes, she went out partying at a young age (and probably dabbled into alcohol) but was it ok for her parents to create an environment in which her sister was placed into a very uneven dynamic where she was parentified and encourage to tattle on her sister, Paris? Some additional disturbing details such as the kidnapping her parents planned in order to send her this sort of rehabilitation camp for children who misbehave are also revealed by a clearly, still-shaken Paris. While a flawed argument for such a rash reaction could be made if the person was being harmful to herself and/or society, many, including I would argue that her family's "legacy" does not conspire to the same burden. If I were to have children in the future, I would hope to be in a relationship with my children that was close and where we could be honest and for them to not be afraid of me.
If you still view her as just another rich socialite with no sense of reality and disposable, I hope that you'll at least take a page in how not to be a parent or a human being. For all of us in life, empathy is free and/or cheap and even a millionaire-heiress who has said questionable things in the past deserves some of it. I think it will be great for humanity if they saw the film and situations such as the ones mentioned in the film with some more empathy.
In the documentary, it reveals a lot more about her childhood and what triggered her desire to create this empire in spite of being perfectly able to live an extremely high standard of living with her inheritance and any money she would have made during the early '00s. Yes, Paris is an executive producer on the documentary which led me dock a few stars on the bias she would have had on the documentary and another was docked from the straying away but understable reasons behind not pressing more substantial questions on some of the interviewees. However, I think it's human nature to not want to see people suffer and be vulnerable when it's obviously painful, even if it's a rich, young, conventionally attractive heiress.
In many ways, her fixation on accumulating wealth is tied to her painful adolescence, Yes, she went out partying at a young age (and probably dabbled into alcohol) but was it ok for her parents to create an environment in which her sister was placed into a very uneven dynamic where she was parentified and encourage to tattle on her sister, Paris? Some additional disturbing details such as the kidnapping her parents planned in order to send her this sort of rehabilitation camp for children who misbehave are also revealed by a clearly, still-shaken Paris. While a flawed argument for such a rash reaction could be made if the person was being harmful to herself and/or society, many, including I would argue that her family's "legacy" does not conspire to the same burden. If I were to have children in the future, I would hope to be in a relationship with my children that was close and where we could be honest and for them to not be afraid of me.
If you still view her as just another rich socialite with no sense of reality and disposable, I hope that you'll at least take a page in how not to be a parent or a human being. For all of us in life, empathy is free and/or cheap and even a millionaire-heiress who has said questionable things in the past deserves some of it. I think it will be great for humanity if they saw the film and situations such as the ones mentioned in the film with some more empathy.