Okay, so I read the description on Netflix about this film (and you should be informed that I LOVE documentaries) and I must admit my curiousity was piqued. I saw the words "unique habits" and "unusual home lives" along with the people on the poster who looked just like their pets and thought to myself "oooh, quirky and fun!" - Yeah, not so much.
I can honestly say that this train wreck of a documentary about social misfits and outcasts using animals as their substitute for human interaction truly mystified and disgusted me. I feel that the description was very misleading. It harkened thoughts of people doing over-the-top things for their pets. In all actuality, the documentary was basically an excuse to take an open-book-look at people's private lives - and not even the type of people that society finds charming. I'm talking about homeless people, poor people, generally disadvantaged and slightly mad people. Not exactly feel-good cinema.
All of this aside, the documentary was immensely hard to follow at times - the director swapped from person-to-person back to person 1 and then off to person 10 and then to person 6 and person 1 again. Many documentaries I have seen have allowed for a clear procession when involving many different peoples' reactions to a product/lifestyle/adventure. This was not inherently comfortable to the person watching and made for a muddled up mess of a movie. I do NOT recommend this to anyone and actually gave it a one-star rating. I will also be contacting Netflix about their "NR" (not rated) status on this documentary and have them consider changing it to "R" or "MA" for certain adult situations and language. Much like Kyle from "South Park", my main response to this film is "what the f@ck is wrong with German people?"
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