A Beautiful Mess
After 3 straight days cooped up with me and my three year old , my wife
snapped suggested I go (by myself) to the movies. For whatever reason, the movie I most wanted to see amid all the holiday blockbuster hooplah was
Young Adult, the story of a ghost writer of a once-popular teen novel
series. Besides the fact that it stars the lovely and talented Charlize Theron,
Young Adult was written by Diablo Cody (
Juno, United States of Tara) and directed by Jason Reitman (
Juno, Up in the Air, Thank You for Smoking). Obviously disturbed by a recent divorce, Theron's character Mavis Gary randomly fixates on an old boyfriend, her highschool sweetheart Buddy (Nite-Owl from
Watchmen
), who just so happens to be married with a new baby. The combination of subject matter and creative team was too much for me to resist, so I decided to check it out!
After 3 straight days cooped up with me and my three year old , my wife 
. The film is directed by the anonymous street artist and culture critic Banksy, constructed primarily of footage shot by the film's presumably unwitting star, the would-be filmmaker-turned street art sensation Thierry Guetta (above), aka Mr. Brainwash.
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