Essay On Shattered Glass

With a catchy name and a quirky cast, “Shattered Glass” shocks the audience with twists and turns throughout the movie. For “Shattered Glass” being one of his first well-known films, director Billy Ray, does an impressive job at making this non-fiction film entertaining and informative during the 94 minutes. His career only went up from this movie; Ray went on to co-write “Captain Phillips” and “The Hunger Games,” two of the biggest films in the movie industry to this day. “Shattered Glass” tells a compelling story of a young journalist with a bright future who threw himself into a scandalous trap to further his career and ended up getting caught in the midst of countless lies.
Stephen ‘Steve’ Glass, played by Hayden Christensen, was the “younger

Always seeming so innocent, but enigmatic at the same time, when Glass would get in trouble by the editor or his friends, he would ask “Are you mad at me?” depicting him as a young child to the audience. In one scene, the camera angle focuses on how Glass is walking around the office with only socks on signifying how comfortable he felt deceiving everyone he worked with. Steve Glass was the character that the audience loved to hate because he was idolized; yet he managed to disguise what he did behind closed doors.
When first questioned about his story “Spring Breakdown” by the previous editor Michael Kelly, played by Hank Azaria, Glass sulked about how he mistakenly assumed the mini alcohol bottles for there being a mini bar there. When in reality, it was actually a rented fridge. Later in the movie, the audience finds out both stories were false. Glass performs his character to make it seem like he is the underprivileged victim, instead of the