AKA, Zack Snyder's directorial debut, and a sign of things to come. He certainly had and still has an epic, cinematic sensibility with regard to visuals. Slow-motion is clearly something that fascinates and excites him, and the dynamism of bodies in motion is something that goes all the way back to the birth of cinema itself. His background in sports-adjacent TV programming of course means that he shares some key elements in common with Andy Sidaris, down to the idolization/fetishization of the human form. As for this relatively minor mini-doc, there's nothing egregiously bad or terribly special about it. It merely exists. My favorite part was when the documentary/after-school special pretense is dropped at the end, and it turns into a New Jack Swing music video.
Review of Playground
