Pollock review

            Jackson Pollock suffered from a drinking problem. Soon after, Pollock met a painter in Greenwich Village, Lee Krasner (Marcia Gay Harden), who showed passionate interest in his artistic style and work. As the two became romantically involved, Krasner also began to take on the role as his manager. Krasner proved her devotion to Pollock by staying by his side no matter what the circumstance; even though time after time he was repeatedly in and out of being a crazy demented alcoholic. After marrying, the two isolate themselves by moving away from the city to Long Island, where Pollock seemingly contemplates his life as an artist. With growth and change comes a whole new artistic style; one that had never been seen or painted by anyone before. Ultimately, as Pollock reached the height of his success, he unfortunately turns to the bottle again and is met with an untimely death.
             Jackson Pollock was a trailblazing painter. He was also an alcoholic, a manic-depressive and completely out of control. Truth of the matter is, though, there are a lot of brilliant, self-destructive people in the world. What the movie Pollock has to do and ultimately fails to do is make us believe there is a reason that we should be more interested in him than all the other brilliant self-destructive people in the world.
             But Pollock could never escape the dichotomy of his career the artist who wants to express himself but shut out the world. He had no interest in conveying the exterior world in his art. He strove to be the artist of his interior life.
             And we understand the true tragedy of Pollock's life that his ability to express himself through paint splatters somehow wasn't enough.