Sunday, December 17, 2006

fast, cheap & out of control

just watched fast, cheap & out of control, the '97 errol morris doco about four men with quirky careers: two that try to control nature for entertainment or aesthetics (an animal trainer and a topiary gardener) and two that try to understand it, for different reasons (an expert in the rare naked mole rat who wants others to share his wonder at the creatures and a robot designer who wants to comprehend life and intelligence so he can replicate it). the four stories are intertwined, beautifully photographed (particularly dig the shots of the topiary garden on a rainy night) and spliced with snippets from old movies to make a whole more cohesive than you might think was possible from the preceding description. being the film ignoramus i am, i don't remember hearing about thisun when it was new, but it definitely raises my interest in checking out some of morris' other work.

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