really an excellent little film and it read like an update of darling in that it detail the vacuous inner life of a young woman whose physical appearance be her only quality but one which take her around the world a a successful model and to the very pinnacle of her profession . however it be something of a cautionary tale a her inner vacuousness mean she can never appreciate what she have or analyze how she get it . because of her look and success and fame no one ever stop to ask her . she be a moral imbecile but that too go unremarked upon because everybody else in her world be one too and the only thing that be notice about a human personality be material success i. e. either youre a winner or a loser . the end be perfect a it play far more realistically than the comeuppance of darling where the heroine have achieve the status of a princess but yet she be deathly bore . the heroine of stardom doesn not even have that ability to self reflect . while stardom play less bitterly than darling because it be less a poison portrait of a manipulating bitch than social criticism and a presentation of an idiotic society which find and discard superficial hero and the more blank the good and a a matter of course . if the heroine of stardom actually have an intellect and or a central nervous system and she might be regard a a victim but she seem to have less self awareness than the replicantes of blade runner . the end be chill for the more sentient audience member and others will be puzzle by what the big deal be at an apparent happy end . these be the people who be indirectly be criticize in stardom .