Art School Confidential
Director : Terry Zwigoff
Adapted from a comic by the author himself, Daniel Clowes the movie started off as some quirky feel-good about a talented semi-geeky-nerd who's obsessed about going into art school and be the next Pablo Picasso. It continued to be another normal teen-wanna-get-gal in the college stuff but it changed tune in the middle and the tone becomes darker and darker.
There was a strangler on the loose killing people and this second tier story line getting more and more intricate to the main plot. For me, the whole story was kinda predictable, well... in a away, watching movie nowadays, you tend to think of more and more quirky ending or twist in the plot as it tends to be the trend since The Sixth Sense (man... tat was quite a long old trend indeed).
What I like about the movie is that it plays with the sarcasm of the art school to the max!!! Like the tagline said, who cares about talent? I am not so sure how real it is in a real art school as I never enrol in one but the mere fact that the art faculty, the students and its lecturers were equally "unart"ful is the amount of cynicism is really funny and captivating. I laughed like mad. How pretentious it can be??? Let's see....
When one of the student commented one of the drawing of his fellow classmates,
"It has the singularity of Outsider Art through the conscious rejection of spatial dynamics could only come from an intimacy with the conventions of picture-making"
Haha.... I mean WTF??? A bunch of crap right??? That's aplenty in the movie and its satirical value is definitely worth watching. Laughing at them laughing at themselves!!!
Cast wise, quite a lot of big names for this Sundance-nominated independent movie such as John Malkovich, Anjelica Huston, Jim Broadbent and Steve Buscemi. The lead, Max Minghella is brilliantly casted as the lead, portraying the little vulnerability of the character. Trivia, he's the son of director Anthony Minghella who passed away recently somewhere in March 2008. His other works are The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain, Breaking and Entering (my review here).
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