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Wednesday, Oct 9, 2002
7:30pm
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
It takes one to know one; documentary deviant Errol Morris knows four, eccentrics that is, each with his own peculiar obsession. They are: a topiary gardener, a robotics scientist, a lion tamer, and an avid fan of the hairless mole rat. At first glance, these whimsical guys are just a bit off, the natural outcome of any life graced with fixation. And they have a bond in their proximity to the animal world, whether they are simulating it, studying it, or shaping it. A wild melange of oddball footage, much of it circus acts, jungle serials, and cartoons, laps at the interviews, stirring up a mild surrealism. But Morris, restless enough to whip this film into a froth of freewheeling metaphysics, goes one better, tenting the whole shebang under a metaphorical Big Top. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control becomes a meditation on chaos. Like the circus, life is surprise, spectacle, and the occasional plummeting high-wire act.
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