Sunday, May 17, 2020

The Film, Confessions Of A Sociopath, By Joe Gibbons

The film, Confessions of a Sociopath, was made by the critically acclaimed director Joe Gibbons. Joe Gibbons is famous for his experimental films, and this film is perhaps his best project to date. The film is an hour long and takes the viewer through real life events that have occurred in Joe’s life. In the film, Gibbons acts as a fictional version of himself where he finds a room full of footage from his life with events that he can no longer recall. The film describes his earlier film experiments, his descent into constructive behavior and his bottoming out on drugs and alcohol. It is intriguing to see a side of a well-known film maker that no one would have thought existed. The film is also greatly intriguing because it is not made in the traditional professional way. The viewer is taken through a series of events that seem normal and completely unscripted. It is also clear that most of the events in the film were shot without the assistance of professional cameramen and d irectors save for Gibbons himself. The film is important and gives the viewer a chance to experience Gibbon’s work on a personal level. He uses his life experience as material for his films while remaining professional. Even though the film might be viewed as an autobiography, Gibbons introduces extremely personal confessions into it that make it a unique type of psychodrama. A series of events unfolds with Gibbons narrating how he descended to destructive behavior. It is clear that he has had a hard

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