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Wow! Such a good movie.

Simply A Masterpiece

One of my all time favorites.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

This movie was a reminder of the importance of striving for balance... so many of the characters featured clealry lost sight of the damage done to themselves and their relationships in their obsessive pursuit of money for the sake of it. Lauren Greenfield's decades of chronicling gets showcased in this expose - and as someone raised in LA during these decades, it speaks the truth. Bravo Lauren. This should be required viewing for all students of modern culture in the developed and developing world...

Critics are giving this film mixed reviews: 'A' for effort; 'D' for execution; and 'F' for depth. Mostly, I agree. But critics are missing a glaring, unseemly trait of the film. Above all else, Lauren Greenfield's 'Generation Wealth' is a one hour and 46 minute advertisement for Lauren Greenfield. It screams narcissism. There isn't anything inherently wrong with self examination on camera, it's just that Greenfield comes up empty. If you believe, as the filmmaker does, that 'money can't buy you love' is an earth-shattering epiphany worthy of a feature-length film, then you absolutely ought to pay the $12 fine to watch her navel gaze. Better still, cough up the $75 retail price for Greenfield's 500-page companion book, coincidently titled -- 'Generation Wealth.' (Why yes, it did take her 500 pages to warn against the excesses of consumer capitalism. Irony? Hypocrisy? Obliviousness?)Ms. Greenfield has stated that she examines the extremes of a social phenomenon in order to understand it. She also adds, gymnastically, that this is not a film about the 'one percent'. What I saw were several vignettes of (mostly) wealthy people looking dumb or pathetic for their greed and ambition. Apparently, plain old middle class folks demonstrate greed and ambition in ways that aren't nearly as cinematic. Probably more accurately, the vast majority of us who do not occupy the highest or lowest rungs of the socioeconomic ladder, could never leave the theater feeling good about ourselves if Greenfield hadn't offered up the low hanging fruit for us to bash.If you've seen the film and consider my thoughts on it unnecessarily harsh, please consider Greenfield's immeasurably superior 2012 film, 'The Queen of Versailles.' What does 'Generation Wealth' add to her eloquent thesis on the perils of consumer capitalism from the earlier film? Take your time, I'll wait...If you considered the film 'eye-opening' or 'important', you've been sleepwalking through life. Wealthy people, like most other people, want more stuff. Greed and excess and narcissism are not novel. The 'American Dream' is as elusive as it's always been. Nothing to see here but bling porn and self-promotion of an artist's overstuffed retrospective.I found 'Generation Wealth' an insulting vanity project that condescends to its audience by presenting simple explanations (disguised with an aura of profundity) for the complex set of circumstances it purports to depict. Especially insulting is the idea that the movie cares at all about a (never defined) generation and/or its relationship to wealth. Mostly the filmmaker needs an audience to assure her that her life's work has merit (by the way, much of it truly does) and that the time she missed from her sons' young lives was worth it. I almost feel foolish assuming that the film was meant for my edification and entertainment. For all Greenfield's gaudy self-indulgence, she neglects her audience by failing to deliver for us. It's not difficult to feel an odd kinship with her son who, when questioned about her absence makes clear "...the damage has already been done."

Generation Wealth (2018) was written and directed by Lauren Greenfield. This movie is hyped as being about the greed of modern society and what it does to the personality of wealthy people. It's not about that.This is a coming-of-age movie about the director and her parents. We see some interviews with women who are dissatisfied with their bodies, and who than have cosmetic surgery done. We see some interviews of women who have been hookers or porn stars or both.However, what we mostly see is Ms. Greenfield coming to grips with her mother. When her parents were divorced, Ms. Greenfield's mother left the children with their father. The got to see their mother every other weekend. In order to do this, they had to travel by plane to visit her, starting at ages five and seven.If this were truly a movie about greed, it might have worked. If this had been advertised as a movie about an adult confronting her mother about abandonment, it might have worked.It's neither of those. It's a self indulgent movie about a photographer who manages to hype her photo book while she tells her own story.This movie carries a terrible a IMDb rating of 5.7. Unfortunately, it's not that good.

Ms Greenfield spent two decades documenting wealth and consumerism and the influence of affluence. This is a brilliantly made, highly entertaining, alarming and hilarious movie.Loved it!