{"id":2842,"date":"2019-02-28T19:33:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T03:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2019-02-28T19:36:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T03:36:38","slug":"bo-burnham-speech-on-winning-best-directorial-debut-for-eighth-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=2842","title":{"rendered":"Bo Burnham speech on winning Best Directorial Debut for Eighth Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ts1CKEGzTto\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This film was an attempt to represent the kids who live their lives online\u2026 Generation Z. Some people think they\u2019re millennials, they\u2019re not millennials \u2014 I\u2019m a millennial, they\u2019re the generation below that. They are a generation that has been mischaracterized as self-obsessed, narcissistic, shallow\u2026 but they are not. They are self-conscious. They have been forced by a culture that they did not create to be conscious of themselves at every moment, to curate every aspect of themselves and present it to the world for judgement. They live their lives as a movie \u2014 a movie of which they are their own star, writer, director, cinematographer, editor, colorist\u2026 Their parents are craft service\u2026 And part of their stress, I believe, is their thinking compared to the representative media that the movie of their life sucks. We tried very hard to show that the failure to meet a cultural standard is worthy of a story, that their struggle is worth paying attention to. We are so quick to ask why these kids are looking at their phones all the time rather than ask what kind of world have we made for them to look up at. They are served by a culture that seemingly gives them everything they want but nothing that they actually need\u2026 They are after all children and we need to do better for them, and I believe the answer to their problems, if there is one, is theirs to articulate, not ours. The best path forward is not to judge or finger-wag &#8230; but to listen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This film was an attempt to represent the kids who live their lives online\u2026 Generation Z. Some people think they\u2019re millennials, they\u2019re not millennials \u2014 I\u2019m a millennial, they\u2019re the generation below that. They are a generation that has been mischaracterized as self-obsessed, narcissistic, shallow\u2026 but they are not. They are self-conscious. They have been&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-memory","kind-article","h-entry","hentry"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}