Fame Us

This documentary makes a very strong point about the toxicity of fame and how the problems associated with fame - once only a threat for the few who had earned it - are now potentially impacting everyone with a smartphone. I will definitely watch it again with my 12 year old daughter.

Through a series of interviews this film reveals different motivations for posting on Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram etc. Is it a fear of being anonymous? Is it done to validate life choices? Is it just a competition? Perhaps we're all addicted to social media, but fame without real relationships is just hollow.

After I watched this film I thought about why I posted my news. Now my posts are about keeping in touch with family and friends that I don't get to see. Who cares about the millions?! A handful of good friends is just fine.

This should be compulsory viewing when signing up a new social media account!

Many documentaries leave you feeling like "What idiots" or "I would never do this" or "Why am I still living?" because they highlight something important but put it across in a way that leaves you feeling despondent. Fame Us is different.

Fame Us enables you to see the traps that our bad culture has set for us so that you can see a pathway out of it. The interviews of famous people get some really credible answers on how to achieve fame but not be seduced by fame.

I was really challenged personally to talk with my daughters and teach them some of the things I had identified from Fame Us. It was really worthwhile to share with them the common traps that, with understanding, could be avoided, along with the misadventure and often pain that follows.

Fame Us left me feeling that fame isn't something we have to eliminate from our lives and that all famous people are evil and self absorbed. The movie was able to present fame as a part of our culture and that setting career goals and achieving them can be pleasant, but do not have to be a priority.

Thank you Lincoln for making this life study.

Interesting look into what people think happens when you are famous, and what actually happens when you are famous. I think this would be a valuable addition to Health classes on highschool to educate students on the realistic of Fame. It's not all it's cracked up to be. I really like the thought provoking ending. Do you want a life filled with healthy, real connection, or a life with shallow meaningless connections. That's the message that I took away. Though the way the message is put across is very subtle and non judgemental. Well worth a watch.

"Fame Us" is one of those rare documentaries that give expression to what we've all been feeling and thinking without knowing quite how to voice it. The Fame Phenomenon of our culture is undoubtedly taking off at exponential speed as social media reaches more and more of the globe's population. This film brilliantly brings together a broad pull of interviews that show the phenomenon from every angle -- we hear from the famous, the has-been, the want-to-be celeb, and those who never will be.

But what's truly amazing about "Fame Us" is its power to reveal the common human condition that runs through all of us, no matter our fame status or our number of Facebook followers: we want to be known. We want to matter.

This film explores the depths of humanity and holds up a mirror to each one of us without becoming didactic. It is deeply insightful, extremely poignant, and not lacking in humour.