For movie 6 I watched Exit Through the Gift Shop. Exit Through the Gift Shop is a documentary all about the street art and graffiti that has blown up in recent years in terms of popularity. Being a huge fan of graffiti I was pretty pumped to watch this. It follows a man who is obsessed with filming and archiving his life named Thierry Guetta. Thierry is just an italian with a camera filming everything until he travels to Italy one time and meets his cousin who enjoys putting tiles together so that it looks like Space Invader sprites and then he glues them on walls and buildings around the city. Thierry is a very charismatic, if not maybe a little unbalanced individual and following his cousin around draws him into the graffiti scene. Or street art, whatever you want to call it. Via his cousin he meets other graffiti artists and he films everyone and everything. Eventually he gets a meeting with the last artist on his list BANKSY HIMSELF LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. They go around and have a few adventures and Thierry gets caught and interrogated but he doesn't give up the big secret so Banksy really trusts him extra hard now. I feel like I'm just talking about the story so lets stop that. This was a very fun and funny and neat look at the street art scene and necessary viewing for anyone with a level of interest in things like that. It ends up being something other than what I thought it would be. Thierry turns into something you probably wouldn't expect and it's even better because people eat it right up.
4.2 Campbell's spray paint cans out of 5
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