my review of Joaquin Phoenix's 'I'm Still Here"
Many of the Critic reviews question the intention and the message of this film as a mockumentary. I can't speak for JP and Casey in what exactly their intentions or message are for this film were.But regardless of any moral it might have carried, I loved this movie.
Deep down it is a great story. If this was a feature film and not a low-budget mockumentry, I bet every person who hated it would think it a great modern tragedy and not some big 'fuck-you' to Hollywood.
As a person who lives in Hollywood and a person who is also as far removed from the film industry as one can actually be in tintsletown, I came to this movie with a perspective of a person who is often bothered by the amount of sterotype that falls on the city while being equally annoyed when I can't go on my usual trail in Runyon Canyon because some film crew is hogging up the path.
Hollywood can be fake and stupid, but it is not only the Actors in Hollywood who are capable of being fake and stupid. It is also Actors that are capable of being very cool and down-to-earth people as well.
I didn't watch this as Joaquin Phoenix, the self-centered ass-hole throwing his Oscar-nominated career down the drain. I saw it as The Story of a Self-Centered Ass-hole throwing his career down the drain, for (as an artist) very noble reasons.
It's best to not focus on the fact that this was Joaquin as himself. But think of him as character, which i might say his acting was absolutely amazing, especially on David Letterman.
These guys not only made a movie that has fixed itself so deep into pop culture that Joaquin's face was wheat-pasted on my corner, but that every major media outlet had a news story before the movie was even really a movie. For that it is most-certainly a must-see.Bravo!
If I had to guess what the intentions of this film were, I'd say that it was two guys who have some pull in Hollywood who wanted to make a film. But not just any film, Any Hollywood retard can make a film, Look at Zombie Strippers!
I think they wanted to tell a story in a way that hadn't been over done,that would be fun to make, (I mean seriously they made a turd out of hummus and coffee grounds and dropped it on Joaquin's face in the style of Jackass).
I think they wanted to make a film that would make people guess and leave them asking themselves stupid pompous questions like "what does it all mean?" and "why?" In that they have succeeded. In entertaining me? They have also succeeded. And as with any great indie or foreign film, they leave you to make your own conclusions. And if at the end of it all you are scratching your head and saying, "I don't get it" Then I thinks it's best if you go back to your Stallone flicks and leave the intellectual stuff to us big kids.
Many of the Critic reviews question the intention and the message of this film as a mockumentary. I can't speak for JP and Casey in what exactly their intentions or message are for this film were.But regardless of any moral it might have carried, I loved this movie.
Deep down it is a great story. If this was a feature film and not a low-budget mockumentry, I bet every person who hated it would think it a great modern tragedy and not some big 'fuck-you' to Hollywood.
As a person who lives in Hollywood and a person who is also as far removed from the film industry as one can actually be in tintsletown, I came to this movie with a perspective of a person who is often bothered by the amount of sterotype that falls on the city while being equally annoyed when I can't go on my usual trail in Runyon Canyon because some film crew is hogging up the path.
Hollywood can be fake and stupid, but it is not only the Actors in Hollywood who are capable of being fake and stupid. It is also Actors that are capable of being very cool and down-to-earth people as well.
I didn't watch this as Joaquin Phoenix, the self-centered ass-hole throwing his Oscar-nominated career down the drain. I saw it as The Story of a Self-Centered Ass-hole throwing his career down the drain, for (as an artist) very noble reasons.
It's best to not focus on the fact that this was Joaquin as himself. But think of him as character, which i might say his acting was absolutely amazing, especially on David Letterman.
These guys not only made a movie that has fixed itself so deep into pop culture that Joaquin's face was wheat-pasted on my corner, but that every major media outlet had a news story before the movie was even really a movie. For that it is most-certainly a must-see.Bravo!
If I had to guess what the intentions of this film were, I'd say that it was two guys who have some pull in Hollywood who wanted to make a film. But not just any film, Any Hollywood retard can make a film, Look at Zombie Strippers!
I think they wanted to tell a story in a way that hadn't been over done,that would be fun to make, (I mean seriously they made a turd out of hummus and coffee grounds and dropped it on Joaquin's face in the style of Jackass).
I think they wanted to make a film that would make people guess and leave them asking themselves stupid pompous questions like "what does it all mean?" and "why?" In that they have succeeded. In entertaining me? They have also succeeded. And as with any great indie or foreign film, they leave you to make your own conclusions. And if at the end of it all you are scratching your head and saying, "I don't get it" Then I thinks it's best if you go back to your Stallone flicks and leave the intellectual stuff to us big kids.
VIEW 4 of 4 COMMENTS
Happy New Year!
Thank you for your review, now I understand better.