NOPEA, HALPA JA HALLITSEMATON

Errol Morris työskentelee yhdessä Oscar-palkitun kuvaajan, Robert Richardsonin (Natural Born Killers, Casino), kanssa ja hyödyntää useita elokuvan muotoja ja ratkaisuja, esimerkiksi mustavalko- ja värikuvia, vanhoja elokuvia ja piirrettyjä, luodakseen erittäin impressionistisen kuvakollaasin.

Dokumentti on hilpeä, absurdi ja kaunis kuvaus elämästä. Se on ajatuksiaherättävä ja pelottavan tarkkanäköinen eikä päästä katsojaa helpolla.

• Ohjaaja: Errol Morris
• Tuotanto: Fourth Floor Prod, USA, 1997

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FAST, CHEAP AND OUT OF CONTROL

The film interweaves the stories of four obsessive men, each driven to create eccentric worlds of their dreams, all involving animals: Dave Hoover, a lion tamer who idolizes the late Clyde Beatty, and who shares his odd theories on the mental process on wild animals; George Mendonca, a topiary gardener who has devoted a lifetime to painstakingly shaping bears and giraffes out of hedges and trees; Ray Mendez, who is fascinated with hairless mole-rats, tiny buck-toothed mammals who behave like insects; and Rodney Brook, an M.I.T. scientist who has designed complex, autonomous robots that can crawl like bugs without specific instructions from a human controller. As the film proceeds, thematic connections between the four protagonists begin to emerge: the lion tamer and the topiary gardener look back at ways which are fading from the scene. The mote-rat specialist and the robot scientist eye the future, envisioning creatures that may someday replace the human race.

Hilarious, sad, absurd, eerie and beautiful, Fast, Cheap and Out Of Control i a film like no other. Starting as a darkly fanny contemplation of the Sisyphus-like nature of human striving, it ultimately becomes a profoundly moving meditation on the very nature of existance.

• Director: Errol Morris
• Production: Fourth Floor Prod, USA, 1997