The new Anna Nicole Smith documentary tries but ultimately fails to reframe the narrative around the late model and media personality
and documentary challenged stereotypes that have followed her for years and revealed what she had endured in institutions for “troubled teens.” It’s clear that there’s a hunger for revisiting these stories to provide more context and clarity to the public—and more power and agency to their subjects.
Smith’s omnipresence in the press looms large in the new documentary, which opens with a series of familiar clips: glamour shots roving sensually over Smith’s face at a photoshoot, the flashes and clicks of cameras in harried paparazzi footage, the gawking crowds surrounding her body as it was wheeled to an ambulance after her death.
The film makes use of never-before-seen footage including home videos of Smith and her late son, Daniel , and features interviews with people who were close to her, including her brother, her half-brother, and a close friend and employee who’s simply identified as Missy. But it fails to use these elements to add nuance to Smith’s story, instead amplifying the sensationalism of her life.
Like all mortals, Smith had her shortcomings. But focusing so overtly on the splashy, scandalous aspects of her rise and fall reduces her to the headlines and stereotypes viewers already associate with her. She was beautiful. She was famous. She was deeply flawed. She was also a person, and unfortunately, in its hyper focus on her struggles,is ultimately more of a voyeuristic cautionary tale than an accounting of a complex woman’s humanity.
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