Re: Banksy

Possible spoilers......

















On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Mike Findlay wrote:
> Has anybody seen Exit Through the Gift Shop?

>Saw it about a week or two ago, yeah.  Why?<


I just watched it on netflix Tuesday night.  I've had heard rumblings that 
it wasn't a true documentary but hadn't investigated what that really meant. 
I'm wondering if that is the widely accepted take on it in the film world. 
I enjoyed it and learned some stuff, (Shepard Fairey being the artist who 
did the Obama poster - he just settled with AP incidentally-and that I 
really like much of street art), but as it went on I took it as the Spinal 
Tap for the art/street art scene.

But I thought it was very well done, it pulled me in and kept me watching 
even as I began to become convinced it couldn't be real.  I don't know how 
much of that realization was prompted by the rumblings I had heard prior to 
seeing the movie, but I'd like to believe I would have been skeptical of it 
even if I hadn't heard said rumblings.

Mike F.



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