In the beginning of the film, the magician has his film crew record him while he conducts tricks for the child. It reminds me of when we're shooting for our projects and the crew is there with the main subject.
The opening had lots of film containers, sort of telling the viewers that there was lots of footage used to edit. What is the truth? Actors are acting the chracters that are made-belief. They are so real that we can relate to. Magic plays a huge role in this doccumentary. It's just an illusion to play with the human's mind and imagination.
Elmyr de Hory was known to be an art forgery. He's known to make fake art into famous pieces. Teenagers, epspecially, follows the latest trends and fashion. This makes them very "fake", they're not being themselves but acting as their favourite artists. When watching this film, I felt that I was with the narrator in the editing suite going through all the footage shots and seeing which ones we like to edit and which footage to remove. Talking about art fogery, it relates with plagiarism. Instead of copying art, people copy text for their projects and make it their own. Today, we now have to quote everything we've used and create a bibliography page. When the fake art was given to the museum to examine, they thought that it was a genuine piece. At one point of the doc, someone bought de Hory's fake painting through a fake cheque. It was definitely karma. The War of the World was the best example used in the documentary. People missed the beginning of the broadcast stating that the broadcast was a fake, but people tuned in the broadcast at the wrong time. A lot of people believed that it was real.
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