Review of Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) by Hardy C — 14 Nov 2017
A deeply subversive film that is a hybrid documentary and a standard staged and choreographed film. Banksy is the genius behind this satire/spoof about faked art, media hype and the public's manipulaibility/gullability.
The creation of Thierry Guetta into some kind of Warholish Frankenstein is the device Bansky uses to subvert the world of modern art. Bansky's hidden face interviews are, of course, staged to make it seem that he is as taken aback as everyone else by Guetta's success.
when in fact Banksy was instrumental in setting Guetta up as the new enfante terrible of the modern chic art set. It's Bansky pulling one over on all of us again, the cinematic equivalent of a midnight Bansky "bombing" run on an abandoned building's tattered walls.
But instead of little girls and balloons Bansky is painting a still life of humanity collectively drinking at a watering hole and not even noticing it is bone dry.
This review of Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) was written by Hardy C on 14 Nov 2017.
Exit Through the Gift Shop has generally received very positive reviews.
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