… I can tell you, there’s no hoax,” an ostensibly exasperated Affleck said at today’s press conference. “It never entered my mind until other people commented on the movie.” Maybe I’m Still Here is a documentary, maybe a mockumentary. In our media-mad culture, is any moment “real” when someone lets cameras follow him in his most private moments? Phoenix has been acting since he was a kid, like his siblings, and like Affleck and his older brother Ben. When is an actor not “on”? Is Joaquin so blotto that he does that he’s not aware he’s being photographed? And is there even the slimmest difference between ruthless truth-telling and dumb or preening exhibitionism ingesting snow-mountains of cocaine, shouting down his underlings, having sex with a call girl, all while the camera rolls?

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