Exit Through a Gift Shop Review

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‘EXIT THROUGH A GIFT SHOP’ FILM CRITICISM BASED ON TWO MOVIE REVIEWS UNIVERSITY STUDENT’S NAME ‘EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP’ FILM CRITICISM Introduction “Exit through a Gift Shop” premiered at the 2010 Sundance Festival and received rave reviews as a classic film ‘mockumentary’ or a ‘comedy documentary’. The documentary follows the secret lives of street artists going about creating their art. Thierry ‘Terry’ Guetta, the presumptive ‘director’ is a French businessman living in Los Angeles with an obsessive compulsion to film anything in sight of his camera. This obsession takes him into the mysterious world of graffiti artists when he starts following and filming his cousin and street artist ‘Space Invader’. He manages to befriend street artist Shephard Fairey of the famous ‘Obey’ and ‘Barack Obama’ posters and gets to travel and film him across different countries for eight years. He gets to meet other street artists but for the ‘faceless’ underground street artist who goes by the pseudonym, Banksy. Thierry ‘Terry’ Guetta finally gets to meet ‘Banksy’ while the street artist is in Los Angeles. He gets formally introduced and gets the chance of filming the elusive artist on the pretext of making an art documentary. Terry delivers a poorly edited ninety minute documentary with the title of ‘Life Remote Control’ to Banksy who advises the Frenchman to quit film and try something new. He takes the cue and becomes street artist ‘Mr. Brainwash’ who becomes a huge commercial success in the Los Angeles and abroad. The film shows the commercialization of ‘street art’. The film was made by Paranoid Pictures, with ‘Banksy’ as the ‘director’ with Holly Cushing and James Gay-Rees as the executive producers, Jaimie D'Cruz as the producer, with actor Rhys Ifans as the narrator. The film received more positive reviews than

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