Art School Confidential

In the same vein of humor of Ghost World, but a much different film. Ghost World is a character piece about two girls, who through the force of time and change, drift apart from one another. The story features similar jokes and attacks of society that are in Art School Confidential, but those jokes exist in a story that has a different purpose. Art School Confidential has a protoganist, but he is a mechanism within a film that is a large critique of the art school racket market. The first half of the film is a series of attacks and slams against the art culture. In the second half of the film a story picks up a plot and follows a story. The details of this story have little importance. The film still stands to criticize this world. It just does so by the showing the determination of someone to sell himself out to the art world so he can become a success. The fact the tone of the film becomes melodramatic is a satiric move. The protoganist in peril of lost love is only momentarily shaken until he can find a way to make his gloom a success, no matter what the cost is. The serial killer subplot is silly but is almost irrevelant. It is just a set up for the protaganist to jump accused artist to legend in his own time. The film never loses sight of the basis of criticism that begins the film. Because the film is structured as so, it has more intrigues and laughs. Every joke relates back to experience of dealing with people of a similar vanity or jarringly reminds you of yourself at your worst moment. The scenario of Art School Confidential is not just true of art schools, but all colleges. The subtitle for this film could be, "If you don't know what you're doing it must be art."