Vice Is Broke
Documentary English
An investigation into the once high-flying digital news outlet that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2023 after boasting a valuation of $5.7 billion in 2017.
| Cast: | Eddie Huang, Sasha Hecht, Dave 1, Gavin McInnes, Shane Smith, Jesse Pearson, Amy Kellner, Simon Ostrovsky, Spike Jonze, Lesley Arfin, David Choe |
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| Director: | Eddie Huang |
All Guild Reviews of "Vice Is Broke"
Eddie Huang’s Hit-Piece/Hate-Piece Chokes the Voice of a Generation
A cautionary tale about greed that occasionally resembles a personal hit-piece, Eddie Huang's documentary recalls the rise and fall of Vice Media.
Directed by and featuring Eddie Huang, Vice is Broke plays out like the most venomous exit interview of all time. Huang served as a key contributor to the punk magazine Vice during its heyday in the 2010s. He’d made a name for himself as a chef, and appeared to have just the sort of personality that Vice would seek out back then. This was when the magazine was expanding its online footprint with immersive video reportage and outstanding documentaries. They were filing dispatches from war-torn Afghanistan and the hermit kingdom of North Korea. Vice reporters were doing drugs in the Amazon and interviewing high-ranking Taliban officials. On a weekly basis, they were hurling Molotov cocktails of rage, righteousness, and rebellion in the face of legacy media. All of it, according to one person, was done with the aim of making ‘the rich feel cool and the cool feel rich’.
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