Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
My girlfriend and I have been going through several Errol Morris movies lately. So far this is my least favorite of all of his films I've seen.
The movie cuts between Morris' typical talking head style interview which can be really engaging. The people he interviews can be interesting, but not always. The four people are all experts of sorts in different areas. A lion tamer, a topiary gardener, an expert on mole rats, and a pioneer in the field of robotics. What do these people have in common? Not much other than being an expert in an area. Morris cuts the interviews betweens lots of footage of a circus. The amount of circus footage is excessive, and I have no idea what it has to do with anything anyone is talking about. I'm not sure if Morris is trying to infer similarities between these interviewees by any of the cuts, but most of the time any similarities seem too broad to be meaningful.
I still gave this film a decent rating because the people are interesting, and Morris' style can be engaging, but unlike a lot of Morris' better works this seems like a film without any focus. Although it feels like a film that seems to think it has one. Can anyone figure out why he put these people together and what the deal is with the circus??
Rating: 6/10