Documentary Analysis: Exit Through The Gift Shop

The documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop certainly shows a perspective of street art. The documentary tells the story of a French native filmmaker Thierry Guetta. Guetta developed interest in filming specifically street artist. Throughout the documentary, it showed how street art is not just a form of vandalism or jargon. However, it showed the passion of the street artists behind their work. Furthermore, I believe the theme of the movie is that nowadays, street artists have disregarded the significance of the art. They only care about the income they can gather from their street art pieces.
At first, the documentary portrayed Thierry as a weird but successful, businessman. He started off filming street artists like Banksy but then, he suddenly