Film Analysis

Pick an artist from the movie Beautiful Losers or Exit Through the Gift Shop to use as a character to analyze. In this post take a close look at her/his perception of art production, while discussing your own ideas about why you make the art you make.  

You could also choose to analyze one particular segment, quote, or idea from the movie applying it to your own life. 

Your post should be at least three paragraphs in length. It should deal with only one artist’s perspective, as well as your own.  The goal of this post it to remain focused on one theme and segment from the movie, while going in-depth into its meaning.

Questions to ask yourself while choosing an artists and a moment that stands out in the movie to write about:

• ·       How does her/his and your culture, provoke the creation of art?
• ·        Does the artist/you feel like an insider or an outsider within a culture? Does this feeling lead to the creation of art?
• ·        How does collaboration, mimicking, and/or inspiration by other artists lead to the creation of art? Is this a good/bad thing, why?
• ·        How does the phenomenon of success change or strengthen one’s perception of art creation? Does the artist create for her/himself alone? 
• ·        How does your own ideas about creativity manifest on a personal, local, or global level? How do you want it to impact your community?

Blog post:

First Textual Analysis post about Chapter 5

Identity—

By Liz Davidson

            “The journey to the general’s birthplace turned out to be a more difficult ordeal than my driver and I had planned on (70)”.  This is the quote that I picked, I feel that it can relate to almost anyone. This quote really describes on how life is for me. There’s always twist and turns that will make life harder for me. I can’t even predict in what’s going to happen next.  In my life; growing I was searching for one thing and one thing only, it’s who I am as a person. I thought that I figured everything out while I was in elementary school or even middle school. In the beginning of seventh grade is when everything changed. I thought that I accepted my deafness by than but everything change in the seventh grade. My fight had begun when I went through a traumatic experience that caused me to have no sleep for six months and hearing constant noise 24/7.  In the end, I’d needed surgery to fix it, to get rid of the noise. That experience actually made me hate my deafness and wished that I wasn’t deaf. I got mild depression from that experience. I thought that the reason that I have no friends and no life is because I’m deaf. I became more shy and more quiet cause nobody would hear me or even listen to me because I’m deaf. I felt like I had no say to what anybody says so I just stayed quiet.  Also while I was growing up, I had to find out which world I belong into; is it the hearing world or the deaf world. I actually felt more comfortable with hearing people than deaf. It’s not that I hate them, just that it made me even more confusing on who I am. It took me a few years to actually accept that I’m deaf but I belong in the hearing world. Also I can’t change with how I’m deaf, so I have to accept it otherwise I won’t be happy. my deafness, no matter how hard I try. It actually made me who I am today. I’ve had a lot of things happen to me, the things that I didn’t even plan on. With what happened in the seventh grade; the noise situation. I thought that I would have more of a normal life, but I guess that can’t happen because no life is perfect.