I'm in love with a German film star
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- The film 'Babystar' is a dark satire about a family of professional Instagram influencers who exploit their teenage daughter Luca as monetized content from birth, denying her any personal identity outside of being a brand.
- Real-life parallel: The UK government (DCMS) recruited influencer parents, who treat their children as content, to endorse the Online Safety Act, despite these parents caring only about branding and revenue, not their children's safety.
- Key film scenes include Luca's mother reading about Medea (foreshadowing objectification), Luca peeing in a potty at a restaurant as protest, and her 'drowning' in a pool to test her parents' attention, which they fail.
- The climax involves Luca's mother giving birth live-streamed for endorsements, ignoring her newborn to look at the camera, while Luca eventually kidnaps her baby sister after realizing her parents are incapable of genuine love.
- The film ends with Luca burying her phone and disappearing with the baby, symbolically reclaiming humanity from a family devoid of it, and giving her parents the ultimate dramatic content they crave.