suburbia

I saw a documentary film about suburbs, a subject that I find amusing. It's so interesting to see how and what city planners think when they plan how we are going to live. And can there be any more depressing than these kind of living - suburbs in the American continent. You would recognize the style from the TV series Desperate Housewife, you know, the perfect houses all looking exactly the same with small gardens and a pool in the backyard. Highly depressing!

Unfortunately the film wasn't that good, in the very end the charachters we were following turned into the camera and told us they were actually actors. Then followed some bad excuses why it was like that, followed by the answer from the director on my direct question of why he made it like that: "- I wanted to tell documentary in a new storytelling mode, and I didn't want to spend months out there in the suburb to try to catch something good on tape."

Well, doesn't that just kill the whole feeling the film tried to tell us - the feeling of beeing stucked in these suburbs, alone and in a slow, boring pace.