| Fast, Cheap & Out of Control |
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| Genre: | Drama |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Rating: | PG |
| Length: | 79 min |
| Country: | USA |
| Cast: | Errol Morris, Rodney Brooks, Dave Hoover, Ray Mendez |
| Credits: | Directed by Errol Morris (Color, B.w, 35mm) |
As we approach the year 2000, we contemplate the significance of the past and speculate on the way our children will live in the coming millennium, Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, A Brief History of Time) in his latest film answers these questions by giving us a documentary which takes on the perspective of someone from the twenty first century looking back on the present, examining the lives of four individuals who reflect the special concerns of a bygone era, the 20th century: Dave Hoover wild animal trainer, George Mendonca, a topiary gardner, Ray Mendez, a mole rat specialist, and Rodney Brooks, an MIT robot scientist who belives that silicon creatures will replace humanity on Earth. In the frame of Morris' camera their lives take on a significance which reaches beyond gardening and even science, telling us something about how we have lived, how we are unique as humans, and like Morris' floating camera, how we may see in the future. Shot with Errol Morris' invention, the Interrotron, a device which allows his subjects to speak directly into the lens without having to look off camera in order to meet the eye of the intervier, Fast, Cheap & Out of Control creates a world where our humanity begins to merge with the machine, and the next millennium is just an electronic pulse away.
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