Is that a retarded guy (they say that in the movie) can pretty much get rich on reselling clothes, buy himself a studio, make a bunch of c**p and get rich?
i guess ignorance is really a bliss in our society.
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I've been vandalized by Elvis! -Ernest, Ernest Goes to Jail (1990)
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"I think it's trying to say that we as people are oblivious to the meaning of art and we only care about 'who' created it."
I don't think it has much to say about the meaning of art -- it's the value of art that's in question. And that's wrapped up in hype and public perception, etc., which make an honest evaluation of value very difficult.
Thank you for censoring the word cr*p. It's shameful how accepted that word has become in our society. Jesus never said that and neither did Jim Varney.
But, hey, what's the difference, am I right?
I HATE MOVIES!!!!
I think the message of the movie is ultimately that most people think what they're (we're) told to think. We're told what art is good and bad, what's in and what's out, which truths and lies to believe. The movie is itself an act of "brainwashing," of selling one version of a story as the Real and Only Truth.
You must have been so afraid, Cassie... Then you saw a cop.
"I think the message of the movie is ultimately that most people think what they're (we're) told to think."
I'm not sure how you can say that the film is guilty of brainwashing, if it carries the message you've stated...
I don't think that Exit Through the Gift Shop is "guilty of" brainwashing. I think it's, at least in part, about brainwashing, about how art and artists accrue value in the public mind. The narrative tells a story while also subverting that story, which makes the film a kind of game or puzzle, but I'd never say that it intends to brainwash anyone. It's too complex and conflicted for that.
You must have been so afraid, Cassie... Then you saw a cop.