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6. An Artist's Wet Dream - Velvet Buzzsaw
Whilst Velvet Buzzsaw is an unashamed satire about art and its consumption, there's another layer that's often overlooked in the movie's construction. The film focusses on a group of art critics that discover masterpieces by an unknown painter, now deceased and ready to haunt the crap out of anyone that sells his work without his permission. That doesn't scare high society, of course, and they start dishing out the pieces for a healthy chunk of profit before art starts coming to life all around them and tearing them apart in increasingly inventive ways.
Director Dan Gilroy does a fine job of ragging on those that make art and its critique their lives, but Noah Berlatsky of The Verge makes a fine retort: it's also a world in which artists are endlessly relevant in a positive light, loved wholly, and have a strange sense of hope for their place which is so often desperately reached for by those struggling.
It seems ironic that what many artists would kill to have - fame, money, adoration - one particularly ghostly figure kills FOR having, actively trying to dim his legacy in an environment where others would have your arm off (again, a turn of phrase used quite literally) to get anywhere near his success.