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good back-story, and good acting

Excellent, a Must See

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

I watched this movie in my journalism class. I loved watching it because it was suspenseful and very action-filled. In the movie, Stephen Glass was a writer for the "New Republic". I thought he was a really good writer and knew how to write for an audience. He went from a really likable guy to someone who everyone despised because he was a pathological liar. This movie taught me that it is important to always make sure you have the right facts and if you are checking other people's facts, make sure that their sources are reliable and the facts that they write down are real. At first, I thought Glass was being tricked by the computer hackers, but he was actually the one tricking everyone else. Once I realized this, I didn't like him anymore. Overall, I think the actors did an excellent job of teaching that plagiarism and fabrication are never good. If you want to write fiction do not be a journalist.

Now that they've been re-running this movie quite often lately, I finally settled down to watch it and learn about this true story for the very first time.Of course, as with all Hollywood "true" accounts, I am careful not to accept every little detail as fact. Nevertheless, the result is a very suspenseful, thrilling, drama that keeps you on the edge of your seat, and the way they combine the present, his heroic lecture to the students and their fawning professor, and the events leading to the writers downfall is intriguing.One might think that Glass would have succumbed to the admission of the truth much earlier, rather than continuing ad nauseum to layer one fib over another until they develop into all out lies, attempting to cover his tracks with fake websites and purely fictitious, cheesily made business cards. Really, it gets to the point where we feel sympathy for him and start believing he is truly in need of psychological therapy. Better to come clean as soon as possible than to drag your boss and friends into the muck of your deception.Excellent performances by Hayden Christensen and Peter Sarsgaard, make this a very fine and enjoyable film considering I knew nothing about the actual story or the events when they originally took place.

Shattered Glass, the true story of Steven Glass, was an OK movie. It didn't really put me to the edge of my seat, but I wasn't so bored to the point that I found myself scrolling through Facebook rather than paying attention. The movie shows good examples on how lying screws people over in the long run. Steven Glass is a good example of a pathological liar, and how sometimes starting off with one lie has to lead to a lot more than expected. Steven Glass, a writer for The New Republic, sat there and wrote multiple articles about people that didn't exist, a company that didn't exist, and places that didn't exist. Steven did this multiple times and got away with it until his original editor got fired and one of his coworkers stepped up to take the position. The new editor was obviously more dedicated to this job than the previous one because it did not take him long to figure out that Steven's piece Hack Heaven was completely fabricated. Later on, this new editor figures out that 27 out of his 44 pieces were partially, if not completely, fabricated. All in all, this movie was just OK. There were no parts in this movie that made me really ponder what was going to happen next. Shattered Glass was very predictable and quite frankly I wouldn't recommend it to anyone that didn't feel like getting ticked off about the whole scenario.

Shattered Glass is not one of the best movies, but is a great movie for the people that like read the magazine The New Republic. The history line goes up at the beginning, then stay there, in the investigation of the article "Hack Heaven" and I had the same question all over the movie "how fake was the article?". The best part is the end.It is a movie directed by Billy Ray where we can find good actors such as Hayden Christenses (Stephen Glass), Chloe Sevigny (Caitlin Avey), Steve Zahn (Adam Penenberg) and Peter Sarsgaard (Chuck).The movie is about the true history of Stephen Glass, a young writer from the magazine The New Republic that manipulates the system of writing on the magazines world. He wrote the article "Hackers Heaven" that was really fake and the magazine Forbes find out that was false and then they began investigating it. Almost all the movie is about that but with a great end.The acting is really good, in special Hayden Christenses made a pretty cool invitation of Stephen Glass, you can see it in the interview (included in the DVD) with the original Stephen Glass.