That was an excellent one.

Thanks for the memories!

hyped garbage

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

I was surprised to find out that this movie was based on real events. The content of the fabrications made by Glass in this movie are completely outrageous. Stephen Glass is one of those people who needs constant reassurance and asks questions like "Are you mad," which I found quite annoying. I thought the movie was entertaining, but it could have been more clear with the format. The only part that really confused me was the part where he went back to the school. I wasn't sure if the students in the classroom were real or fake, but the looks Stephen was giving the young girl in the second row were creepy. I would recommend this movie to you if you are looking for what not to do as a journalist.

In this world of cut-throat competition, how far would you go to clasp on to that position where you are viewed as 'the benchmark' for others? Would you pursue your conscience or let your 'praise- loving' instincts take over your decisiveness? Would you choose to be an entertainer at the cost of risking your 'Professional Integrity'? The questions like these stroll through your imagination when you watch the movie 'Shattered Glass'. This ironic 'true story' tells the tale of concoction and fabrication that marred the career of an otherwise talented writer, Stephen Glass. A 24 year old, young, dynamic reporter working for the prestigious 'INFLIGHT MAGAZINE OF AIRFORCE ONE', 'The New Republic (TNR)'; Stephen has made a name for himself as an entertainer who does stories that his colleagues wish they could do. These striking stories are new, entertaining and at times fiction- like. However, since they all go under the TNR 'three day torture test', as Stephen describes the emphatic 'fact-check and review process'; no one doubts their credibility. Stephen manages to manipulate the process and slip-in his fiction in the form of facts as any generic article which does not have a source material is purely checked on the basis of the reporter's NOTES and description of the event. Quite masterfully though, Stephen heightens his aplomb and starts overdoing his 'fiction-fact-farce' reports and is eventually exposed by an online magazine 'Forbes Digital' after an article titled 'Hack Heaven' is scrutinized and found fake. 27 of the 41 reports by Stephen are adjudged as fabricated, making the readers question the credibility of the entire magazine. What follows is a formal apology letter from 'The New Republic' team to its readers accepting the tale of myth, lies and fabrication that Stephen had managed to write as facts.'Shattered Glass' is a must-watch movie for every professional, not only a journalist. It portrays the significance of sensibility and commonsense over creativity and treachery. Not only it tells us a tale of emphatic rise and equally fast decline of a Journalist's career, it manages to describe the essentialities of the profession. The fact that assumption, over-confidence and amateurism should not overtake your conscience, honesty and professional integrity, has been beautifully showcased in this movie. Some of the nonverbal intricacies like showing the lead actor 'bare-footed' in the office signifies how immobile and theoretical his professional life was, the repeated dialogue 'are you mad at me?', tells us how sceptical and aware Stephen was about the fallacies in his work. And last but not the least, the conscious attempt to show a credible care for every colleague thereby gaining their trust tells us how planned Stephen was in his efforts of turning fiction into facts. As a journalist, everyone experiences that delicate moment in his profession where he has to make a sensible decision of acknowledging what is morally and professionally right and shunning what could possibly be a tempting short-lived success. But what follows can be a disaster as happened with Stephen. We all should create a moral watchdog for ourselves by strengthening our credibility and thus not allowing our thoughts take over our thinking…..Reality Touch: AftermathIn reality, Stephen Glass studied Law after his infamous exit from the world of journalism. Yet his disgraced past hung on to him as he was denied a license to practice law by the California Supreme Court. Pointing out in its ruling that 'Glass's journalistic dishonesty was not a single lapse of judgement but involved significant deceit sustained unremittingly for many years', Glass was left disorganised and ashamed. That tells us that the consequences of our cunningness may lead us into a life of failure and shame. So BEWARE and BE AWARE

"Once a liar, always a liar", my father once told me. Lying can be very deadly to people. You start off by only telling one lie, then end up having to tell another just to verify the first one. That is where the domino effect begins, you have to keep making up lies over and over again just to protect yourself. Instead, you just end up spinning yourself into a web that you can never really seem to untangle without hurting everyone around you. In the movie "Shattered Glass", a young writer by the name of Stephen Glass, got an amazing job as a journalist for the popular magazine The New Republic in his early 20's. His career hit off and he wrote 41 stories that bring an exciting new touch to the magazine. People loved reading his articles, until one day Mr. Glasses life came crumbling down. Twenty-seven out of forty-one article were either partially or completely fabricated. The New Republic could not tolerate this because they did not support non-fiction what-so-ever. Stephen found himself lying about everything just to cover up his tracks. He wanted a short cut to fame, but just wound up friendless, jobless, and completely untrustworthy. He would never be able to find a successful journalist career after that, because his word wasn't worth anything anymore. I thought film was alright (I would probably give it a 7.5 out of 10). It was based off a true story, which I enjoy a lot in films, and it has a really good ending. It also teaches a good lesson about lying and how the sweat and tears are worth the outcome. Cheating your way never works, you will end up at the bottom faster than you got to the top. You should never put yourself in a web of lies, because as my father once also shared with me, "honesty is the best policy".

This movie was not only a suspenseful and exilerating movie, but was a true documented story about a man's life. The movie began with a slow ongoing feel about an average person trying to move up in the world. This person was a young man in his early 20's who works for the well known magazine called the NEW REPUBLIC. The New Republic is not only a very established magaizine but is also highly professional, and completely excludes non-fiction based information. With this being said, this young man named Stephen Glass, (the last name also hinting around the title of the movie SHATTERED GLASS) has been known to write very entertaining stories. through-out the movie the viewers get to experience the young man's life beginning to "shatter" when they find out mostly all of his stories were completely, if not somewhat, false. The movie allows for readers to feel sympathetic and not feel sympathetic for main character all in 94 min.