This year Banksy did something that no other graffiti artist has probably done before. He made a critically acclaimed movie called "Exit through the Gift Shop". This movie is about the best graffiti art movie never made. That is the movie's tag line. Even though this movie was never supposed to be made, it was the most entertaining and insightful documentary movie I have ever seen. It wasn't essentially about Banksy or even graffiti art, it was about an unusual french guy, Terry. Terry lived in Los Angeles with his wife, kids, and a video camera rolling 24/7. He started recording every moment of his life after death of his mother. Poetic!
After developing an interest in graffiti, Terry met Banksy and started recording him for a documentary, but that documentry never saw the day of light. Instead, it became a movie about the man with the camera, Terry, famous for his graffiti work, Mr. Brainwash. This movie essentially shows insanity of Terry and raises the question whether we should even consider him as a graffiti artist? His work is mostly done by hired hand, many has labeled him a 'retatd', and his ideas are more less repeated to a point that it becomes meaningless. But unlike Andy Warhol's practice of repetition, as Banksy puts it, Terry's makes his ideas truly meaningless.
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