Kpop idols documentary : YES OR NAH ??

I'm kinda torn on the question so i want to hear other people opinion about it

I watched Blackpink and Lesserafim 1st documentary and 1-2 episode of RIIZE documentary and i really liked them

I like seeing how the group form and bond with each other, see their hard work during training and learn some behind the scene story

But the 2nd lesserafim documentary left me torn

- on one hand i like it to see them talk about their struggle and see them being this fragile probably make them look more humans to some people

- but on another hand HYBE pushing so much the fragility and struggle of the girls on the front scene

Made me feel uncomfortable

It made feel like HYBE was weaponizing the girls emotions to gain sympathy

If lesserafim aren't good sinder etc .. it's only because of HYBE who wasn't able to give them a good training vocal team

And they receive a tons of blacklash because of this and never apologize for their lack of profesionalism by not giving their idols the proper training and expose them to such hurtful comment ( which would never happen if they did their job well)

And in contrary of apologizing for their incompetence

I felt like they just thought let put the girls in front of a camera and make them cry so we gain sympathy back and people stop bashing us

It might be my opinion but that's why i felt so torn watching the last Lesserafim documentary

Btw i'm not saying showing your weakness and fragility in a documentary is bad

I loved Celine dion and Lady gaga documentary

They had a great way to find a balance between showing their weakness and be vulnerable in front of the camera but also showing strenght, good times and what makes them vibrate

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Did you feel it was too dark and should have more positive content or did you feel their vulnerability was not original or a mix of both the points?

Maybe it's my opinion but to me a documentary is a way to show the person for who it truly is with their strenght, vulnerability, good and bad moments

That's why i loved celine dion documentary she openly show her disease and the impact it has on her

But also her strenght and desire to be back on stage and do whatever it needs to be able to sing in front of people again

It was a portray of who she really is she wasn't hiding her vulnerability and weakness but the whole documentary wasn't depicted as " have pity of me because i'm sick"

It was more a statement of how brave, courageous and strong this person is to keep pushing with all of this in her life

It's not that i didn't like lesserafim 2nd documentary but it wasn't as good than the first one

Because considering the context when it was release, i couldn't watch it without seing the obvious hidden intention of HYBE behind this

I didn't see it as a documentary meant to show who are each members individually and their personality, or a statement of how strong they are, or how like every humans they have their good and bad moments

Hybe made of the girls vulnerability and fragility the main point of the documentary and the documentary was pretty much only around this subject

I truly think the girls emotions were genuine and honest

But i couldn't see this documentary as nothing else as a way for HYBE to weaponize the girls and their emotions to gain pity and sympathy for hybe and the girls

I lean nothing about the dynamic between lesserafim members, i learn nothing about how they work hard, i lean nothing about their background, goals and personality

The only thing i take from this documentary is that they are suffering

And that's why i said weaponizing their emotions

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meanwhile look when some of those scenes were recorded like year, even year and a half before today...

so it was planned long time ago

Or some of these scene were scrapped from the 1st documentary and bring back because it fitted the leitmotiv behind the new documentary

It actually a lot of time that some scene are cut from a movie or a documentary or even a video because they doesn't fit with the product they are trying to do

But use for another one because it fitted the new one