Tarnation
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uh, he is weird and gay and that's okay. its a documentary about this weird gay kid who had a really fucked up life. You may think that it is self-aggrandizement but I thought it was honest, intense and brave.
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though some of the recording by the end freaked me out I thought the early footage and story telling was amazing. It is weird finding out his mother is dying while he is on the phone and taping it, but I didn't think it was pretentious because here is someone who has been taping themselves constantly in this weird mental exercise for over ten years.; You wonder if it because a security blanket to deal with emotional trauma.
SPOILERSuch a weird relationship with the camera. It's like recording it makes it okay for him. Andy Warhol once said that the thing he liked about his Sony Walkman Recorder was that he never had a bad evening because even a nasty fight made for a good tape.