The director ofThe Queen of Versailleswatched 2,000 hours of teens screen time.
What she saw shocked her.
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A gaggle of teenage girls enters the gallery and gathers around one of their phones.
Look at this: Its all phone chargers, she says.
This time, she says ofSocial Studies, I was the mother of two teenagers.
(The two originally met at Harvard.
Two years after that film premiered, COVID hit.
She decided to take a break.
We noticed a positive change in him right away, she says.
We go back upstairs to the exhibit and pick up where we left off.
But I ended up making it my own.
Her alma mater was her starting place forFast Forwardin the 90s,before her pool of subjects widened.
Soon, shed talked to nearly 200 kids.
She narrowed it down to a smaller group, private- and public-school kids both.
In the group discussions, she was surprised by the uniformity of the kids experiences.
When somebody talked about eating disorders, four other girls would chime in, she says.
That night, she asked her sons at the dinner table if choking was something their friends talked about.
They were like, Yeah, thats what we hear girls want.
I dont want this to be an issues film, Greenfield tells me.
Let me show you how.
