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A review by boricuabookworm
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North
5.0
"Do you ever feel guilty about using the people in your life as material?"
Sophie Stark is a complex person who seems unreachable in every relationship she has. She can't be predicted, her intentions are unknown, but her pull on others' energy is PRESENT. She isn't clear cut good or bad or talented. She attempts to explain stories of people she's met in brutally honest movies that tend to ruin her closest relationships. It doesn't bring her joy.
"Sophie understood a lot more about people and how to play them then she let on."
We learn about her through the eyes of her girlfriend who she disrespected while filming a scene about sex assault by having the other actor sexually assault her, her younger brother who has to answer to peers questioning why his sister is so weird, her ex husband who's mothers death was exploited by Sophie in her best film, the jerk football player who she stalked as a teenager to film a documentary and looks to her for guidance on his own motivations for living, and a mid director who views Sophie in a paternal way and wants to use Sophie's fame to sell a period movie in his specific way.
"She saw people for what they really are, and I think if you're that perceptive you just can't live in the world for very long."
Sophie Stark is a complex person who seems unreachable in every relationship she has. She can't be predicted, her intentions are unknown, but her pull on others' energy is PRESENT. She isn't clear cut good or bad or talented. She attempts to explain stories of people she's met in brutally honest movies that tend to ruin her closest relationships. It doesn't bring her joy.
"Sophie understood a lot more about people and how to play them then she let on."
We learn about her through the eyes of her girlfriend who she disrespected while filming a scene about sex assault by having the other actor sexually assault her, her younger brother who has to answer to peers questioning why his sister is so weird, her ex husband who's mothers death was exploited by Sophie in her best film, the jerk football player who she stalked as a teenager to film a documentary and looks to her for guidance on his own motivations for living, and a mid director who views Sophie in a paternal way and wants to use Sophie's fame to sell a period movie in his specific way.
"She saw people for what they really are, and I think if you're that perceptive you just can't live in the world for very long."