The Outsider

The Outsider focuses on filmmaker Jim Toback (Black & White, Two Guys and a Girl) as he shoots a film called When Will I be Loved in just twelve days. The initial synopsis forges the impression of a behind the scenes as they mad dash a movie together in such a short space of time. In the end it becomes a mix of shooting the movie and a retrospective on who Toback is from people in the industry who know him. He is definately a film maker with an interesting how I came to make films story. As a Harvard Student he ended up on a drug trip which lasted eight days causing him to insist he was never the same again. This documentary serves more as background watching. You don't need to be fully invested as it never goes so deep in Jim Toback or the Behind the Scenes to fully realize its potential in either direction. A complete focus on one of the other with simple snippets of other elements perhaps could have produced a more interesting view in the end.