Brooke Shields, an actress raped, attacked by Tom Cruise, harassed by Zeffirelli and turned into child sex merchandise

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"It's time to leave the childish things," said Brooke Shields with just 16 years as she dressed in jeans and just before sucking her thumb on camera.

The television ad campaign shot by Richard Avendon for Calvin Klein was branded as pornographic ('soft-porn') at the time while sales of the firm's jeans increased tenfold.

Conclusion to no one's surprise: child sex sells.

Let's say that the pants episode occupies the third act of the documentary

by Lana Wilson and recently presented at the

(First it was in its face-to-face version and yesterday in 'online').

Over a little over two hours, the viewer is confronted with a detailed account of a life delivered (and exploited) to what could be called the culture of child sexualization as a derivative 'branch' and somewhat more gruesome of the well-known as rape culture.

She was, as is heard at one point,

We are talking, to situate ourselves, of a woman who is 57 years old today -businesswoman and mother of two daughters- and who did her first job for an advertisement when she was barely 11 months old.

We are talking about the 12-year-old protagonist of the film

' (1978) by Louis Malle, where she played a prostitute-girl who was walked among the clients on a stretcher, as if she were Cleopatra, at the virginity auction her.

We are talking about the girl who, shortly after, when she turned 15, was filmed on a lost island in Fiji by a director, Randal Kleiser, determined to turn the film

(1980) into a

of the loss of, again, the virgo.

We are talking about the baby that at 16 was literally mistreated by Franco Zeffirelli in

The tape, structured in two parts, has a lot of reckoning -of catharsis, perhaps-.

In it, Shields herself recounts before her camera her perplexity from her then, her struggle to flee from her past that has guided her in each of the therapies and her present acceptance of herself same.

By the way, and this is what is relevant, the film manages to become a cruel and transparent

and of women as merchandise.

As one of the interviewees says

Brooke Shields in a moment from the movie 'Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields'.

The most hyped part of

' comes in the second part.

They are barely five minutes of the very long footage.

And, hastening, it could be said that it is no more than an anecdote.

But obviously rape, that's what it's about, it never is.

Shields recounts how, after finishing his studies at Princeton, he accepted an interview in Los Angeles to resume his job in 1987.

says without identifying the attacker with whom, after time, he tried to contact without receiving an answer.

She tells that she was afraid of being drowned and that she froze.

"I felt that he disassociated me from my body," she says excitedly.

"I thought 'no' should have been enough. I thought, 'Stay alive and get out'... And I just shut up."

In an interview prior to the screening of the film, Shields has lamented that the entire film could be reduced to that violation.

But on the other hand, she says, "she gets it."

The truth is that this fragment seems to some extent the precipitate or cruelly logical consequence of everything seen.

As one of the interviewees reflects, until the seventies, the feminine pattern that had been in the image market responded to the voluptuous model of Marilyn Monroe.

What was maintained is the relationship of submission to the man, first of the adult woman and, when she rebelled, of the woman-child.

And here, Brooke Shields was the gold standard.

Brooke Shields.Taylor JewellInvision

The documentary debates the role played by the alcoholic mother Teri, accused to exhaustion of exploiting her daughter.

"She just wanted a better life for both of us and we were getting it," says the actress.

And from there she draws lines with each of the relationships that have occupied a place in Shields' life.

The moment in which it is related how the tennis player

destroyed all her trophies in a fit of rage after seeing her in a chapter of the series 'Friends' where she acted as a guest is surprising.

The controversy she had with

who, as a Scientologist teacher, bitterly accused Shields of taking drugs to cure postpartum depression, is hilarious.

And she misses again the strange relationship she had with

And in between, Shields discovers and exploits his comic vision in the series 'Suddenly, Susan';

Shields becomes an admired

Shields discusses with hers two daughters of hers (neither of them have seen her most controversial films) of feminism;

But the latter is already another Shields.

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