George Harris
Snake Reynolds - Himself [Participant]
Henry Shipes - Himself [Participant]
Claude Register - Himself [Participant]
Albert Bitterling
For his second documentary feature, Errol Morris originally set
out to chronicle Vernon, FL, because it had the highest rate of
a particular sort of insurance fraud -- dismemberment performed
for profit -- than any other place in the country. Nothing of that
original idea survives in the film itself. Instead, Morris seems
perfectly content letting the camera roll in front of the other
eccentrics he found there, using his trademark approach of simply
letting his subjects do the talking themselves. Many of them exhibit
unusually close relationships to animals, including a turtle keeper,
a worm farmer, and most memorably, an extremely enthusiastic turkey
hunter. Other highlights include a sermon offering a close reading
on the significance of the word "therefore" and a couple
with a jar of sand from White Sands, NM, that they insist, thanks
to radiation, has begun to multiply. |