The Magician
It’s only while watching The Magician, a cult Australian movie from 2005, that it really hits home how prissy other mockumentaries are. Scott Ryan’s film goes in with both feet and by getting it wrong – wrong lens, bad lighting, framing all over the place – he gets that on-the-fly feeling just right. It’s the pretend-real story of a hitman called Ray, played by Ryan himself, a wiry and wired gun for hire with a bullet head and a bullet ready for a victim in the film’s opening moments, all very indistinct, though we do manage to glean that the hit has been accomplished and Ray will be paid. The rest of the film … Read more