I'm a Brooke fan, so I wanted to like this more, but I was left somewhat confused. While it has great production value and is interesting and surprising, I was left wondering why the focus was on Hollywood directors/NY advertisers, etc. Instead of her mom. It's no shock that the film/media world has often sexualized minors - which is disgusting & wrong, of course - what *is* shocking is that a mother would have allowed any of it. Having grown up close in age to Brooke, I knew this was a talked-about issue (Barbara Walters, for example), but I had no idea that it was even worse than probably many of us thought (take, for example, the nude pics taken by a family "friend" (later involved in a lawsuit) - who in their reasonable mind would allow their daughter to be subjected to that???). This doc tried to make a big statement on society - no argument there - but that attempt fell flat, as it seemed extremely disingenuous to almost completely gloss over her mother's massive fault in all of this. The buck should have stopped with her, but it seems she was more interested in buck$. Her mother's negligence and harm in allowing all of this & putting her young daughter in many sexualized situations is the real story, and that was mostly ignored in order to pretend it was all about this more commercial/profitable angle.
Also...I was confused by how she makes claims on how uncomfortable it was to discuss her sexual life (completely understandable), and how everyone always asked her about sex, sex, sex......but what did she expect to happen when sex was the main content & focus of so many of her movies & commercials? That said, it doesn't excuse creepy interviewers salivating through their questions...but again, it also doesn't excuse her mom, who was entirely responsible for Brooke ending up in sex-focused projects and then being asked incessantly about sex.
Also, if talking about her sex life is not what she wanted to do, and she's making a documentary all about not wanting sex to be/have been the focus, then why did she further discuss parts of her sex life, in current time (about the past)? It's contradictory to her entire point. For example, why would she share the details of her encounter with Dean Cain, when divulging details of her private sex life is against the entire point of the documentary?
All this aside, I'm a fan of hers, as I think she has a very genuine & kind heart. I just didn't like a few things about this doc.
Still, it was entertaining, interesting, and surprising at times.
Also...I was confused by how she makes claims on how uncomfortable it was to discuss her sexual life (completely understandable), and how everyone always asked her about sex, sex, sex......but what did she expect to happen when sex was the main content & focus of so many of her movies & commercials? That said, it doesn't excuse creepy interviewers salivating through their questions...but again, it also doesn't excuse her mom, who was entirely responsible for Brooke ending up in sex-focused projects and then being asked incessantly about sex.
Also, if talking about her sex life is not what she wanted to do, and she's making a documentary all about not wanting sex to be/have been the focus, then why did she further discuss parts of her sex life, in current time (about the past)? It's contradictory to her entire point. For example, why would she share the details of her encounter with Dean Cain, when divulging details of her private sex life is against the entire point of the documentary?
All this aside, I'm a fan of hers, as I think she has a very genuine & kind heart. I just didn't like a few things about this doc.
Still, it was entertaining, interesting, and surprising at times.