Monday, January 31, 2011

Exit Through The Gift Shop

A documentary that is at once entertaining and enthralling.  It's not like you see how graffiti artists work every day, let alone the great Banksy.  Exit Through The Gift Shop delivers both and more.  It tells the story of the greatest documentary on graffiti artists that was never made and captures the utter absurdity of a feverish obsessive compulsive videographer, Thierry Guetta, who takes a keen interest in graffiti and becomes an artist himself.  The movie asks the perennial question that eludes everybody, what is art anyway?  Just like any other meaningful questions in life, it really doesn't have an answer.

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