Can this be true? Am I really watching a documentary about Paris Hilton? And to make matters even worse, can I admit that this film is actually (gulp) good? I mean, 2020 has brought a lot of surprises in all our lives, but I didn’t really think I expected this to happen.

Well, it turns out that it’s true, Alexandra Dean has previously directed a documentary about Hedy Lamar, so now she has set her sights on Paris Hilton. I have to admit I only know fleeting things about Hilton – I never saw her reality show ‘The Simple Life,’ though I admit I did see her sex tape. I kind of ignored here during her height, but that’s just me ignoring anything that’s popular and hyped. I know that she was famous for doing nothing, although I realize know she does a lot of things although I have no idea if she does them well- if she is really a competent deejay, I ‘ll never know.

The documentary is pretty straightforward, and when it started, I thought it was going a by-the-numbers glamour bio. When she first hinted that she was suffering from PTSD, I initially rolled my eyes. It’s kind of hard to feel sorry for her after she shows you all her material things. But then the bombshell revelation came – she was abused at some reform school in Utah, and has suffered from that, traumatized from her experience. And just to prove that all is real, she even enlisted stories from women who were in the same school the same time she was there. I have to say that my perception of her did change, and her ‘poor little rich girl’ act became more authentic after. Dean loves her subject, and presented it to the world, maybe not warts and all, but certainly less photoshopped.