I caught this last night on cable, after having read about it for months and months, with the opinions ranging from 'it's a masterpiece' to 'it's a masturbation piece' and everything in-between. To me, the movie was not a masterpiece by any stretch; in fact, the film didn't actually convince me that Jon C. is really talented. He's creative, there's no question - the way he managed to cope with the undeniably heartbreaking elements in his life (that would have crushed many other less-resilient souls) by inventing an objective 3rd-person reality thanks to the availability of a video camera shows true survival instinct, and how he initially made the film for less than $300 is of course remarkably tenacious.
But it takes more than a strong spirit and truckloads of tenacity to make you an artist, and to me, Jon still has to prove that. He's in a couple of new films as an actor, which is an excellent beginning, and so we'll get to see.
But it takes more than a strong spirit and truckloads of tenacity to make you an artist, and to me, Jon still has to prove that. He's in a couple of new films as an actor, which is an excellent beginning, and so we'll get to see.