Vandal felt like a bunch of "cool" scenes smashed together to try and tell the story of an artist who doesn't want to sell out.
I get the idea behind why Damage doesn't want to become a "Street Artist" this kind of thinking lives amongst many creatives be it music, movies or art. Many wrestle with selling out in some way. The protagonist "Damage" just seems very arrogant & hard headed about it all & without a good reason at all. He is even asked why does he keep doing Graffiti & not become a street artist by the troubled kids he is meant to inspire. He gives no answer, the movie cuts to the next scene & we are left wondering why?
The villian/antagonist Sizmik feels like a pantomime of what a successful Street Artist is, with his entourage & terrible grills. Everything he did made him look like an imposter or a poser in the Graffiti world which i feel is what the filmmakers were going for? Whenever he was on screen it felt like he was being bad for the sake of being bad & had no real motivation to be bad just like our protagonist gave us no motivation to why he doesn't want to be a Street Artist.
The movie felt like it had actually ended once they had done the Piece for Pharo. Our protagonist wanted to get permission to legally Graffiti a wall, the man who could make that happen said do this thing for me, he spoke to the kids & blam got to graffiti the wall. Everything after that felt like oh no the movie is only 30 minutes long...let's fill it with stuff that really has no weight. The Stakes were not high enough & the protagonists hair was too messy & dirty (seriously what was with that). Again the movie was trying to be too deep with him not being a street artist that he couldn't even explain why he didn't but everyone around him said he should, instead he get's them killed, molested & get's himself thrown in jail... but he becomes a street artist in the end he goes legit & does it for pharo & his friend who got killed for doing illegal things...
I get the idea behind why Damage doesn't want to become a "Street Artist" this kind of thinking lives amongst many creatives be it music, movies or art. Many wrestle with selling out in some way. The protagonist "Damage" just seems very arrogant & hard headed about it all & without a good reason at all. He is even asked why does he keep doing Graffiti & not become a street artist by the troubled kids he is meant to inspire. He gives no answer, the movie cuts to the next scene & we are left wondering why?
The villian/antagonist Sizmik feels like a pantomime of what a successful Street Artist is, with his entourage & terrible grills. Everything he did made him look like an imposter or a poser in the Graffiti world which i feel is what the filmmakers were going for? Whenever he was on screen it felt like he was being bad for the sake of being bad & had no real motivation to be bad just like our protagonist gave us no motivation to why he doesn't want to be a Street Artist.
The movie felt like it had actually ended once they had done the Piece for Pharo. Our protagonist wanted to get permission to legally Graffiti a wall, the man who could make that happen said do this thing for me, he spoke to the kids & blam got to graffiti the wall. Everything after that felt like oh no the movie is only 30 minutes long...let's fill it with stuff that really has no weight. The Stakes were not high enough & the protagonists hair was too messy & dirty (seriously what was with that). Again the movie was trying to be too deep with him not being a street artist that he couldn't even explain why he didn't but everyone around him said he should, instead he get's them killed, molested & get's himself thrown in jail... but he becomes a street artist in the end he goes legit & does it for pharo & his friend who got killed for doing illegal things...