“Fast, Cheap, & Out Of Control.” It was quite a film. I’m truly interested in further discussion of what the significance of “Darkest Africa” has in the film. I understand Clyde Beatty, with being a lion tamer in real life and playing one in this movie or television show (I’m not sure which), and he’s actually playing himself as well. But is that the only thing within showing that or is there something else? I know one thing. That little André The Giant/Chunk (from the Goonies) kid was freakin’ awesome. Running around in his diaper concoction fighting the forces of evil, how could you go wrong?
One thing that I feel that Errol Morris is trying to get across through this film, in addition to knowing reality and the meaning of life and how things “just happen.” I feel he is commenting on dreams; the fact that everyone has them and everyone needs them. These four men all have or had a dream that they strived for, they all reached theirs too. The film stars out with talking about dreams, and that is all I kept thinking about as I watched this film. I feel that the idea of having dreams in life was one of the major points of the movie, if not THE point. The beauty of dreaming of something is that it keeps you pushing forward in life. Even when the world around you is falling apart, a dream, just one dream, can help you survive.