This film by Errol Moris features four characters with their separate, highly specialized but extraordinary careers: a lion trainer, a topiary sculptor, a mole-rat specialist, and a robot scientist.
Back to the title of this film, I felt “fast, cheap and out of control” aims to describe the process of how human’s essential needs being applied into actions, and how the eagerness of this need itself empowers human self to create regardless of environmental chaos, and taking anything away from logic tangibles. Since all the action being come from their original motivation, and thus they all are “Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control”.
In order to present their life more objectively, Moris takes himself as an interviewer behind the camera, who have the same curiosity about four characters’ life as other audiences, allows four interviewees to tell their real life in face of the camera or the audience. I think this camera technique called “Interrotron” powerfully fulfills the traditional function of documentaries – presenting the truth. And the First person story telling can also win the trust from all audiences.
In this film, instead of establishing four characters’ narration one by one, Moris interplays, overlaps and interrelates these four separate and highly specialized subjects and makes them correspond to each other in the general theme.
