Last Friday night, Star Movies aired Shattered Glass, a true story about a journalist who used to make up his stories to gain popularity. Stephen Glass, the Hero (well, real hero!!) was working as an associate editor for New Republic. In his 3yrs stint with the magazine Stephen wrote around 41 stories and gain popularity. He was indeed a master story teller, and became a star. On May 8, 1998 he was fired from New Republic when they discoved that one of his recent articles about computer hackers was “a hoax”. Further investigation by the magazine also found out that he had fabricated all of 6 and parts of 21 articles. To support his story, he created fake website like Jut Micronics , voice mail boxes, phone numbers to foils the fact checkers.
After lying low for couple of year Glass came back with a novel “The Fabulist” which by and large tells the story.
The movie depicts the entire story (till he is fired) in a brilliant fashion. Amazing performance by Hayden Christensen as Stephen Glass, and supporting Actor Peter Sarsgaard as Charles 'Chuck' Lane , it's a must watch!
