Errol Morris's film Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control

The one thing that connects these men most is their enthusiasm for their particular point of interest. Each man seeks to control some aspect of the world and to reshape it in a way that serves his particular view of the world. Another element that binds them together is that they are alone in their obsession. The maker of topiaries creates his particular form of ephemeral art, and Morris shows this to be a dying art. He has no apprentice, and it is suggested that what he does is a thing of the past and not something anyone is learning for the future. The lion-tamer similarly is the last of a dying breed. The mole-rat specialist and the roboti

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s a mixture of techniques, mixing the straighton talking heads of his interviews with bits of old movies and cartoons, stock footage, and obscure and often startling images. Each subject offers his particular take on life and on what is important. Dave Hoover, the lion tamer, talks about animal psychology and what he has learned working with lions: "The chair has four legs . . . You put the chair up, and all of a sudden the lion has four points of interest. He loses his original train of thought because this agitates him . . . He takes his wrath out on the chair." George Mendonca talks about how it may take as long as fifteen years to create his topiary sculpture: "I just selected a plant that had branches approximately where I want them. And then you begin to cut away everything else." Ray Mendez represents all of humanity in that he says that human observers "are constantly trying to find themselves in another social animal," which is precisely what he is doing with the naked mole rat. Rodney Brooks looks upon his work as an examination of the human condition, even though what he does is work with machines, for he says, "When I think about it, I can almost see myself as being made up of thousands and thousands of litt
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)