Rendező:
Jiří SádekOperatőr:
Antoan PepelanovZeneszerző:
Jan MaxiánSzereplők:
Karel Kovář, Gabriela Heclová, Nikola Čechová, Petr Florián, Lucie Ehrenbergerová, Nicole Ehrenbergerová, Martin Carev, Milan Peroutka ml. (több)Tartalmak(1)
Outside the Internet, Youtubers are ordinary people like us; at least that's what we can see in a film that follows five of the new rock stars for a year. Offering insights into their family background, creative thinking and ideological bedrock of the people who belong to the greatest influencers and who shape today's young generation. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)
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The six youtubers in the documentary seem mostly sympathetic and sensible, so I have nothing against them. Not even against their video production, which seems to be intended mainly for children and young people up to fifteen years of age. However, Following as such is very superficial and flat, completely failing to explain why shooting videos on YouTube is such a phenomenon, why it is such a controversial topic and why so many children watch the creation of their favorite people with such enthusiasm and undisguised devotion. This documentary is completely uncritical of YouTubers, instead constantly praising them, saying how amazing they are, even through the testimonies of their fans. Therefore, in some places it looks more like a custom self-promotion instead of a documentary. Which doesn't matter much, because the target audience is probably the fans, who are only looking forward to new videos with their favorite YouTubers and don't expect a deeper probe into the Czech YouTube scene anyway. They are probably going to really like the film.
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