… Elliptically, I would say … I sincerely don’t want to influence people’s interpretation,” Affleck told the masses at the Venice Film Festival.”I can tell you there is no hoax. It makes me think of ‘Candid Camera’ or something.”
Notice how Affleck stops short of declaring the film non-fiction.
Phoenix walked away from a very successful and lucrative career as a film star in 2008, a move that could’ve been seen as a noble choice by a man who found himself in an industry that made him wildly unhappy. Instead he immediately outed himself as a performance artist by having his every move over the following year filmed. Whether sincere or not, it was an artless move that screamed “Look at me!”
To be fair though, the film – which is rife with scatology, vomiting, prostitutes and cocaine — was well-received.

See the full article from “NBC Miami (blog)”



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