This film revealed what was going on behind the camera when Kate Moss was starting out her model career in the early 90s. For a profession that usually looks extremely put together, trendy, perfect, and seamless, this video showed a different side of the "runway girls" that you see on stage. I almost wished that it showed a bit of a darker side than it did, but it steered away from the dieting and pressure that is put on these girls to look a certain way.
The most interesting scenes were those with directors and photographers that give them extremely specific directions on how to move their bodies, which way to look, and how to act. It makes the girls seem like paper dolls or puppets that can be molded into whatever they are needed to be - something I find quite unattractive. This filmed played with the idea of the "it" girl and what her life is all about. I don't think it's something to be idealized at all.
It seems as though the sound that was in the background corresponded to the scene. If there was music, it was the music coming from the runway show. When they were speaking or walking, it included all the sounds going on around them. The film simply peered into this lifestyle.
One of my favorite scenes (that was actually repeated twice at the end of the film) was almost like a blooper reel from a photo shoot. A line of models fell over and knocked down the set, causing them all to burst out in hysterics. It showed them smiling and laughing - having actual emotions - as opposed to the serious pouts they gave the camera as soon as they were instructed to do so. The repetition of this scene could mean that it happens often or the opposite.
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