A wise choice in Iedereen beroemd! / Everybody Famous! is to change the focus of the story at the right moment. In this way multiple angles to the story are told one by one. It starts out as an obsessed father who wants his daughter to become famous and succeed in singing contests. We've seen this before for example in Les convoyeurs attendent / The carriers are waiting, another lovely Belgian movie about an obsessed father. Then the story changes to kidnapping a famous star to get things done (see the King of Comedy). Halfway it changes once again in an indictment of the media (15 minutes or Natural Born Killers, but no violence here). It ends with saying something about our obsession with fame (Where the truth lies is an upcoming movie about that). All these story lines are interwoven in the ending.
The irony here of course that all crimes are forgotten, all friendships restored, all doubts set aside once the goal of stardom has been reached. The indictment against the media is vicious and among the best parts: The news-station has almost every fact wrong, blows everything out of proportion and is not afraid to make the news themselves.
Editing is a problem here. Too many redundant scenes diminish the impact. Especially in the beginning it moves too slow and is not well paced.
This is satire, a difficult genre in movies, reasonably done. The end song is a self-referential element and summarizes the whole movie.
The irony here of course that all crimes are forgotten, all friendships restored, all doubts set aside once the goal of stardom has been reached. The indictment against the media is vicious and among the best parts: The news-station has almost every fact wrong, blows everything out of proportion and is not afraid to make the news themselves.
Editing is a problem here. Too many redundant scenes diminish the impact. Especially in the beginning it moves too slow and is not well paced.
This is satire, a difficult genre in movies, reasonably done. The end song is a self-referential element and summarizes the whole movie.