In THE LUCKY ONES,
I am attempting to examine, among other things, our obsession with fame
and celebrity – as a desperate manifestation for a kind of pop spiritual
fulfillment. Through deconstructing what would be considered a violent
tabloid event, I wanted to investigate the conflicting values of a
seemingly morally rudderless society, through the context of a troubled
faux-spiritual TV tabloid journalist: an individual embodying
diametrically opposed impulses. I’m proposing that even in this world of
seductive crass illusion and betrayal, there still exists the possibility,
if not the opportunity, to gain self-knowledge
