94% The Queen of Versailles

This movie is the poster child for conspicuous consumption.Ya can't buy class. This rags to riches to rags couple, David and Jackie Siegel, are tacky, tacky, tacky. Dogs run around crapping on the floor and the kids step in it. Jackie thinks this is funny.They have too much stuff, continue to buy stuff and don't take care of their stuff. This is the American dream gone totally amok. They ought to read Annie Lenox's book "The Story of Stuff." But, do either of them have the attention span to read a book? I think not.Mind you, Jackie, like the stereotype of the person who lives the American dream, has a good heart. She cares for a relative's child as if she were her own and she gives her friend $5,000 in an effort to save her friend's house from foreclosure.David told her when she turned forty he'd trade her in for two twenty year olds. Meant as a joke, I suppose. She's forty-three and breast augmentation is obvious, and dermabrasion and botox treatments are filmed. She's doing her best. Interesting, she is working very hard to maitain a fading youth while David is hopelessly out of shape.He says she's a child. But, he's no more adult than she is. Who knows if they'll recover, besides what would recovery mean? David wants to keep his largest, still unfinished house in America, which is 90,000 sqare feet. And, he hopes to once again own a yacht and private jet. Why shouldn't he, after all he's worked hard? Intelligent people must keep in mind the average wage worldwide is $2.50 a day, and those who earn that kind of money work very hard too. Is greed good? I think not. And wealth certainly doesn't buy knowledge or class because these two are tacky, tacky, tacky and stupid to boot.Great film. Go see it.

July 28, 2012

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_queen_of_versailles/

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