The Queen of Versailles: Building the Largest (Disconnected) Home in America The documentary film by the name of The Queen of Versailles is about a very wealthy couple, David and Jackie Siegel, and how they plan on building the largest home in America. The new American “palace” that will be known as Versailles is 90,000 square feet, it contains 13 bedrooms, 10 kitchens, a bowling alley, skating rink, spa, and more. This house is everything the family could want and embodies the fantasy dreams of most people around the world but the bigger the house gets the greater the distance between the family members both literally and figuratively. This documentary seems to be about the American Dream, rising above what you started with and building something amazing and new, but it is really about how too much of Jackie and David’s American Dream causes a disconnect in the family unit.
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Sure, every married couple has issues and goes through rough times but these issues surpass any of the normal problems of a normal couple. Even their children can see it. Victoria, their eldest daughter, thinks David sees Jackie as a trophy wife and she may not be far from the truth. David has been through 2 wives before Jackie and even tells her that when she gets older he will trade her in for three 20 year-olds. That may have been a joke but what was not a joke was David’s answers when he was interviewed. David was asked if he gained strength from his marriage and after thinking for a few seconds said, with confidence, “No.” Jackie does not even know the extent of their financial issues after the stock market crashes. Whether that is from her lack of interest of David’s reluctance to trust her is unclear but one thing is sure there is no communication between the two. Jackie jokingly tells the crew members that they know more about her life and that she will have to watch the movie to grasp the full extent of her family’s
Sure, every married couple has issues and goes through rough times but these issues surpass any of the normal problems of a normal couple. Even their children can see it. Victoria, their eldest daughter, thinks David sees Jackie as a trophy wife and she may not be far from the truth. David has been through 2 wives before Jackie and even tells her that when she gets older he will trade her in for three 20 year-olds. That may have been a joke but what was not a joke was David’s answers when he was interviewed. David was asked if he gained strength from his marriage and after thinking for a few seconds said, with confidence, “No.” Jackie does not even know the extent of their financial issues after the stock market crashes. Whether that is from her lack of interest of David’s reluctance to trust her is unclear but one thing is sure there is no communication between the two. Jackie jokingly tells the crew members that they know more about her life and that she will have to watch the movie to grasp the full extent of her family’s