What about the person she is? In many of these early interviews, Wilson zeroes in on young Shields’ face, which can’t help but betray how hurtful and confusing the experience was for her.Įven worse: The person expected to guide her and shield her was incapable of doing so. She tells us before the opening credits even finish that the hardest thing for her growing up was “knowing who I was.” How could she? All she heard was how gorgeous she was. As one talking head explains it, Shields was a “nuclear version of what it was to be judged by your appearance.”įor Shields, it was even more fraught. Nearly always, she is an object, constantly told how pretty she was, being praised solely on her looks, simply a face and body to people. It should be! Viewers who have never seen early interviews of Shields - who started her modeling career when she was just an infant, making her someone who has literally been famous nearly all of her life - will likely be shocked to see the way Shields was treated even in seemingly friendly chats. There’s plenty of meat here, but little of it is actually that satisfying. That’s not to say that Shields doesn’t reveal plenty in “Pretty Baby,” far from it, as the second half of the documentary also comes packed with headline-ready revelations, including stories about an alleged rape at the hands of an unnamed Hollywood bigwig, what really happened with Shields and Michael Jackson, and even a story about her then-boyfriend Andre Agassi flipping out over her “Friends” appearance (the tennis star, Shields tells us, was so angry at her turn on the sitcom that he smashed all his trophies out of anger). And while no one should have to excavate decades of pain to tee up a compelling documentary, that Shields is never truly pressed regarding some of the bigger questions of her life - particularly in the first part of the doc, which is dedicated to her childhood and youth - leaves the entire endeavor feeling oddly fractured, a wholly incomplete portrait.
As with many other moments in Wilson’s latest, Shields touches up against personal revelations before backing away from them, skating on to the next story. 3’ to ‘Chile ’76’ĭecades later, Shields still seems sad about it.
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