I felt that the most interesting person in Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control was the Robotics engineer at MIT. He had the most mature mindset as far as creating a “living” thing. When he builds his robots he designs them from life that existed, such as ants and other insects. Allowing his robots the ability to fall was one of the most humane characteristics to give a robot: the ability to make a mistake and possibly learn from it. The only other gentleman who does this is the mole rat guy. He tries to create the perfect world for these mole rats but also learns from his own mistakes. The wild life trainer and the landscaper are living in the past. They are trying to control nature. Lions are not meant to live in cages and bushes are not meant to be trimmed into the shapes of animals. Ultimately they will fall to nature (the lion tries to attack the trainer and the shrubs are destroyed due to extreme weather).
Of all of the films we have watched, I liked this one the best. Morris seemed to have a lot of fun with the camera, almost a little too much, and had some of the most interesting characters. I actually paid attention to a man wearing a butterfly tie who talked about naked mole rats!