Adrian Grenier, an actor that has been a member of the cast of the HBO series "Entourage", like other so-called celebrities, got curious about a small boy running around with a pack of photographers in Los Angeles. Mr. Grenier was impressed by what he perceived was a boy playing with the men and making a name out of himself in the crazy world of celebrity worshiping. The focus of the film is a young man, Austin Visschedyk, a boy unlike any other of his peers.
The documentary tries to make sense with the fascination with the people that are constantly in the public eye. The opening of the film shows some teen agers sunbathing while idly looking at the glossy magazines where the current stars are photographed. The group goes as far as discussing the possibility of sexual encounters among the people in the magazine.
This phenomenon about celebrity watching is not new. There has always been a market for people that cannot get enough of their favorite movie stars and other so-called celebrities that are the subject of tabloids and gossip columns. The explosion of this trend to the extent it dominates the popular culture has only been a recent fad. Before this explosion of information created by the arrival of publications like People and others that need the pictures to give to their readers.
Austin Visschedyk who was fourteen at the time the film was made, shows a mature nature that surprises. He is a gifted young man who wanted to make a name for himself. Going after stars in Los Angeles, he amazes in the way he was able to adapt the new picture technology and even make a name for himself. Celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Eva Longoria, and others show their amazement for this young man working among his older peers.
Austin's participation in the documentary gives the viewer a look of a unique teen ager acting as an older man. One cannot help but wonder about the roles of these parents who give Austin free reign for going after the people that will be on the next issue of the gossip magazines. It is a shallow life, at best. Austin is seen at all kinds of hours roaming around those areas of Los Angeles where the subjects are most likely to be as they try to conduct their lives, only to be followed by Austin and the pack of photographers that stalk them.
Celebrity watching has brought an invasion of people's lives. The people in the public eye have seen their privacy violated by these paparazzi whose work do not let them a free moment to be themselves, a high price to pay because of the fame and the allure they emit to the rest of us not privileged enough to inhabit the chic worlds where they inhabit. Of course, there are those celebrities that need that constant attention to have their faces all over the place and they need the obnoxious paparazzi that follow their every move.
Adrian Grenier, the director, shows a man that knows what he wants and he is not easily impressed with the life style of his fellow celebrities. The documentary is fast moving as it moves from one location as the pack of paparazzi go after the shots of people in the news and feed the public's insatiable curiosity for the fantasy lives they cannot even aspire to live.
The documentary tries to make sense with the fascination with the people that are constantly in the public eye. The opening of the film shows some teen agers sunbathing while idly looking at the glossy magazines where the current stars are photographed. The group goes as far as discussing the possibility of sexual encounters among the people in the magazine.
This phenomenon about celebrity watching is not new. There has always been a market for people that cannot get enough of their favorite movie stars and other so-called celebrities that are the subject of tabloids and gossip columns. The explosion of this trend to the extent it dominates the popular culture has only been a recent fad. Before this explosion of information created by the arrival of publications like People and others that need the pictures to give to their readers.
Austin Visschedyk who was fourteen at the time the film was made, shows a mature nature that surprises. He is a gifted young man who wanted to make a name for himself. Going after stars in Los Angeles, he amazes in the way he was able to adapt the new picture technology and even make a name for himself. Celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Eva Longoria, and others show their amazement for this young man working among his older peers.
Austin's participation in the documentary gives the viewer a look of a unique teen ager acting as an older man. One cannot help but wonder about the roles of these parents who give Austin free reign for going after the people that will be on the next issue of the gossip magazines. It is a shallow life, at best. Austin is seen at all kinds of hours roaming around those areas of Los Angeles where the subjects are most likely to be as they try to conduct their lives, only to be followed by Austin and the pack of photographers that stalk them.
Celebrity watching has brought an invasion of people's lives. The people in the public eye have seen their privacy violated by these paparazzi whose work do not let them a free moment to be themselves, a high price to pay because of the fame and the allure they emit to the rest of us not privileged enough to inhabit the chic worlds where they inhabit. Of course, there are those celebrities that need that constant attention to have their faces all over the place and they need the obnoxious paparazzi that follow their every move.
Adrian Grenier, the director, shows a man that knows what he wants and he is not easily impressed with the life style of his fellow celebrities. The documentary is fast moving as it moves from one location as the pack of paparazzi go after the shots of people in the news and feed the public's insatiable curiosity for the fantasy lives they cannot even aspire to live.