American Movie
September 29th, 2009 | Published in Comedy, Movies, Reviews
Mark Borchardt is a man whose reputation is very murky. Some people consider him to be a talented and driven man whose ambitions are hindered by lack of money. Other people consider him to be a walking joke, with dreams that he does not have the talent or knowledge to fulfill. The film American Movie somehow successfully leads it up to the audience to make up their own minds about him. I for one was both inspired by and embarrassed for Borchardt. He seems to have a good cinematic eye, but his writing just isn’t there. Throw in the fact that the people he chooses to work with are either unenthusiastic, pretentious, or just unreliable, and it’s also understandable why he’s still in the same place he started. Borchardt expresses a laziness in his work, while at the same time talks passionately about film. It is still unknown if he’ll ever make anything of himself, and American Movie offers no answers either way. It is a film that should be seen by anyone who wishes to be a filmmaker.
