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Created Jun 30, 2011 06:31PM PST • Edited Jun 30, 2011 06:32PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Very Good 3.5

   Interesting documentary that twisted unexpectedly! It was very interesting to see the behind-the-scenes of street art in its infancy, but I very quickly tired of the man around which the film centered: Thierry Guetta.

   My favorite part of the movie, other than the behind-the-scenes stuff, were some of the quotes:

   • “Warhol repeated iconic images until they became meaningless, but there was still something iconic about them. Thierry really makes them meaningless.” ~Banksy

   • “I don’t know how to play chess, but to me, life is like a game of chess.” ~Thierry Guetta

   • “Uhmmm… You know… it was at that point that I realized that maybe Thierry wasn’t actually a film maker, and he was maybe just someone with mental problems who happened to have a camera.” ~Banksy

   • “It was magic that this person let me film, you know? I felt like I had the piece that will finish the puzzle. It was like getting something in the daylight that… what you see in the nightlight. He was even more than I expected; he was, like, just incredible; he was cool, he was… he was human, he was… he was… he was… he is, you know, he’s really like a… what he represents, you know? He’s really like a… I think he’s really like a… I really liked him!” ~Thierry Guetta talking about meeting Banksy for the first time

   Another great quote, not from this film, but related to it: “[Thierry’s] art sells for roughly double what mine does these days. Gore Vidal once wrote that ‘Every time a friend of mine succeeds, a little bit of me dies.’ I’d amend that to ‘Every time one of my friends borrows my ideas, mounts a huge art show and becomes a millionaire celebrity,’ a little bit of me wants him dead.” ~Banksy

4. Acting

   Very Good 3.5

5. Male Stars Very Good 3.5

6. Female Stars Very Good 3.5

7. Female Costars Very Good 3.5

8. Male Costars Very Good 3.5

10. Film

    Very Good 3.5

11. Direction Good 3.0

12. Play Very Good 3.5

13. Music Good 3.0

14. Visuals Really Great 4.5
15. Content

16. Edge

    Tame 1.1

17. Sex Innocent 1.0

18. Violence Gentle 1.0

19. Rudeness Polite 1.2

21. Reality

    Natural 1.0

    It’s real, unless you subscribe to the conspiracy theories that Guetta is actually Banksy, or that Banksy and Shepard Fairey convinced Guetta to pretend to be an artist to do some “street art” in the film world.

22. Circumstantial Natural 1.0

23. Biological Natural 1.0

24. Physical Natural 1.0