GENERATION WEALTH Trailer Shows Us That Riches May Not Be Everything
There’s a lot of crap going on in the world, and it can be very hard to take a meaningful, introspective look at ourselves and the culture we live in. That’s one of the reasons we love watching TV shows and movies or playing games.
We want to just escape the troubles of the world even if it’s just for a moment. However, there are times when it can be important to look at ourselves and evaluate our lives. Generation Wealth may be a catalyst for some of us to do that. It’s a documentary from Lauren Greenfield that looks at wealth culture and its effects on people and society.
“For the past 25 years acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield (The Queen of Versailles, Thin, kids+money, #likeagirl) has travelled the world, documenting with ethnographic precision and an artist’s sensitivity a vast range of cultural movements and moments. Yet, after so much seeking and searching, she realized that much of her work pointed at one uniting phenomenon: wealth culture. With her new film, Generation Wealth, she puts the pieces of her life’s work together for in an incendiary investigation into the pathologies that have created the richest society the world has ever seen. Spanning consumerism, beauty, gender, body commodification, aging and more, Greenfield has created a comprehensive cautionary tale about a culture heading straight for the cliff’s edge. Simultaneously autobiographical and historical essay, the film bears witness to the global boom-bust economy, the corrupted American Dream, and the personal costs of late stage capitalism, narcissism, and greed.”
If this sounds interesting to you and you missed it at Sundance, you’ll be able to stream Generation Wealth via Amazon Prime starting February 1, 2019.