Ross & I went to see Exit Through The Gift Shop at the Fox Tower in downtown Portland this evening. Expensive as movies go, but darn well worth it. It's just crazy. As a project it started out being a documentary about Banksy, but then Banksy turned it into a documentary about the file maker: Thierry Guetta. The last half of the film is about the one man(iac) show he put on in LA. There's one line near the end of the movie where a guy is trying to sum up the story by saying the joke is on this person, or that group, but ends up saying "I don't know if there is a joke". Update: here's a review I like.
To give you some idea about Banksy: he printed up a million quid worth of monopoly money. It looked just like a British pound note, but it had a picture of Princess Di on it and she's rolling her eyes. He started passing the stuff out at a festival and people took them as real money and spent them as real money and nobody noticed the wrong picture at all. So now he's stuck with it because if it gets out, he'll be arrested for counterfeiting and likely end up in jail.
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