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來不及好好回顧2010，2011就已經開始了。這一年，我選擇了 Banksy 的 EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP 作為我的開年電影。 我或者應該稱之為紀錄片。但這真的是紀錄片嗎？或是一個 mockumentary？Thierry Guetta aka. Mr. Brainwash aka. MBW 的一生，有幾多是真的發生過的事實？有幾多是 Banksy 與 Shepard Fairey 的創作？ 其實，「事實」與否並不重要。Mr. Brainwash 在 Art scene 的現像本身，就已經是一件 art piece。「Mr. Brainwash」這個名字已經說明了一切：在高度資本主義的社會當中，傳媒的渲染就是人氣，人氣就是「事實」，人氣造就「好」與「壞」，人氣造就「善」與「惡」。傳媒渲染出來的人氣，就是當下的精神領䄂。 就像 George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four 中 IngSoc 所朔造的 Big Brother 一樣。 由 Andy Warhol 開始，Pop Art 就不是關於那些「畫」本身，而是關於傳媒與人氣。Banksy 這次打造了 Mr. Brainwash 這個人物，Pop Art 走出了畫框，也穿越了 [...]

Suddenly a scene from the film A SINGLE MAN came to my mind. George Falconer (Colin Firth) was sitting in the same same couch with his lover Jim (Matthew Goode). George was reading Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, while Jim was reading Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Personally I love both of these stories. I love the [...]

so this is what Andy Warhol famous for: putting people (or his superstars) in front of his film camera in the Factory and let them be themselves for as long as he wanted. This time we have 13 of those screen tests shot in the middle of the chaotic glamourous ’60s, featuring the legendary superstar Edie [...]

“Two people kissing,” I said, “always look like they’re fish. Two people kissing, what does it mean, anyway?” Damien said, “it means you trust the other person enough to let them touch you.” “No it doesn’t. People kiss people they don’t trust all the time. Especially in Europe and at parties. Think of all the [...]

If something’s going to happen for you, it will, you can’t make it happen. And it never does happen until you’re past the point where you care whether it happens or not. An actress friend told me that after she didn’t want money any more and after she didn’t want jewels any more, that’s when [...]

Sometimes you’re invited to a big ball and for months you think about how glamorous and exciting it’s going to be. Then you fly to Europe and you go to the ball and when you think back on it a couple of months later what you remember is maybe the car ride to the ball, [...]

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. – Andy Warhol “From A to B and Back Again”

People’s fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn’t have fantasies you wouldn’t have problems because you’d just take whatever was there. But then you wouldn’t have romance, because romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it. A friend of mine always says, “Women love me for the man I’m not.” [...]