marek-pokorny1 Reviews

Rat Film (2016)

With material this interesting this film should be 15 minutes long

[5/10 · 18 June 2023]

I was skipping forward a lot as many of the scenes are lingering for much much longer than they're worth. And I'm not one of the commenters here who were disappointed that this film is not really about rats. It has an important topic of history of segregation, systemic racism of urban planners and then private sector and how it didn't disappear today. I can see attempts to stimulate thinking about different scales switching from the rat scale: first rat houses, limiting their freedom of movements in the living room with reinforced plastic walls, then talk about redlining in Baltimore, preventing development of the poorest neighborhood, reinforced borders - red areas stayed red. Miniatures of death scenes, then human size forensics training rooms. I can see the potential. But the important informations/feelings this document has given me could be easily edited down to 15 minutes that would have more intense impact on me, this felt like listening to someone talking with half a minute pauses after each word.