Jake Gyllenhaal covered in paint in Velvet Buzzsaw poster cropped
The Big Picture Few directorial debuts within the 21st century landed with as significant of an impact as Dan Gilroy’s terrifying thriller Nightcrawler, a creative rejuvenation of the neo-noir genre that instantly skyrocketed its writer/director’s status in the industry. In addition to proving Gilroy’s merits as a storyteller, Nightcrawler featured a tour-de-force performance from Jake Gyllenhaal, who shed his typically charismatic persona in order to play an offbeat anti-hero.
While it eventually takes a more supernatural slant, Velvet Buzzsaw does a great job at realizing the world of modern art. Gilroy presents a grim reality in which pundits like Rhodora and Morf are willing to criticize and judge the work that others have poured so much effort into, and don't realize the power that they have to destroy artists’ livelihoods with a negative review.
'Velvet Buzzsaw' Satirizes the Commercialization of Art Nightcrawler is a standout debut for Gilroy because beneath its neo-noir crime elements, the film boasts a searing indictment of how the media perpetuates violence by sensationalizing lurid material. Velvet Buzzsaw incorporates a similar element of satire that indicts wealthy people from turning artwork into a commodity, even if they wouldn’t be willing to pay the artists the same respect.
Although the film is certainly intended to start a discussion, Velvet Buzzsaw doesn’t offer a definitive solution to the issues that it addresses. It remains a grim reality that it is hard for artists to make a living, and the film’s ambiguous ending doesn’t suggest an easy solution to the disparity between creators and benefactors.
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