In the beginning of the documentary, you see a man (Thierry Guetta) who carries a camera around everywhere he goes, and films random people. He begins filming street artists as they are in the process of making their work, and tells them he is making a documentary, when actuality he did not plan to edit the footage. Most people, including myself didn't see the problem in him shooting his film, and I even felt a little bad for him when he tells his life story about how his mom dies, and he didn't know that she was sick, so he wanted to film everything, to insure he wouldn't miss anything else. Towards the middle/end, he meets a famous street artist that goes by Banksy, and befriends him. Banksy convinces Thierry to take all of his film and turn it into a movie, and in a way tells him to become a street artist himself. This is when my whole view of Guetta changed. He started poaching other artists techniques, and he got really cocky and arrogant, so my pity for him turned into hate.
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