Exit Through the Gift Shop

So. This French guy comes to the US. French guy starts filming everything. French guy films people tagging any wall big enough to see from the street on your boring-ass morning commute, and suddenly makes a living out of it. He's filmed every street artist he can find, traveled from coast to coast, and even done a few himself. So what's the intrigue? Finding someone who is deliberately keeping himself unfilmed. Banksy.

I mean, he completely fails to film him, but it's worth the journey I guess. Banksy does find him, and asks French dude to film some of his work in action, but the finished movie product, essentially what became of all of this guy's maniacal filming, is the film itself; it's a movie about a filmmaker who makes a movie about himself. Kind of weird.

It's really difficult to write a review of a documentary, mainly because almost all documentaries can be summed up in two or less sentences. Supersize Me is about this guy who wants to show how unhealthy McDonald's is by eating it for a month straight. Man on Wire is about a guy who wants to walk a tightrope between the World Trade Center towers. Doesn't make the movie uninteresting, it just makes it difficult to describe without just straight up showing the movie to you.

It's a blast though, definitely worth a watch.