The decision of a famous musician/actress such as Selena to release something as vulnerable as this documentary needs to be applauded. Those of us who like music and cinema might wonder if the famous people we admire go through the same things as we. Maybe they don’t like to talk about matters such as mental health and daily life struggles, let alone show them on camera. Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me is courageous, raw and moving.
I have always wondered how can actors and musicians keep up with the amount of interviews they have to give in a single day. What do they win by doing that? In one of the most interesting sequences of this documentary, we see Selena deal with interviews of various types. It’s tiresome, because this task seems to bear no sense, fuelling her mental stress. As a big music and movies fan myself, I rarely watch those interviews that seem to be prepared in an hotel room. They’re just recycling stuff we’ve seen before.
A celebrity releasing a documentary like this one is double-edged sword, because there is always going to be people who will criticise it for glorifying mental health and not doing enough, and we also have those who applaud it for showing that everyone, famous or not, goes through the same stuff.
The decision of a famous musician/actress such as Selena to release something as vulnerable as this documentary needs to be applauded. Those of us who like music and cinema might wonder if the famous people we admire go through the same things as we. Maybe they don’t like to talk about matters such as mental health and daily life struggles, let alone show them on camera. Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me is courageous, raw and moving.
I have always wondered how can actors and musicians keep up with the amount of interviews they have to give in a single day. What do they win by doing that? In one of the most interesting sequences of this documentary, we see Selena deal with interviews of various types. It’s tiresome, because this task seems to bear no sense, fuelling her mental stress. As a big music and movies fan myself, I rarely watch those interviews that seem to be prepared in an hotel room. They’re just recycling stuff we’ve seen before.
A celebrity releasing a documentary like this one is double-edged sword, because there is always going to be people who will criticise it for glorifying mental health and not doing enough, and we also have those who applaud it for showing that everyone, famous or not, goes through the same stuff.
