Rats

Rats can be drop-dead fascinating. Or insanely cringe-worthy ... especially when they show up in your life unwanted, unannounced and unwavering in their pursuit to proliferate and take, take, take.

If (or perhaps when, given today's rat explosion climate across the U. S.) you have the unfortunate experience of becoming rat-afflicted (like we did at my former workplace) ... even if you don't get BIT ... the presence of unexpected rats will leave your head on a psychological swivel.

I pursued this Morgan Spurlock RATS film after surviving a harrowing rat experience.

The teachings both jolted my nerves and my understanding of why humans should be concerned ... very, very concerned about the current steady creep of rat pathogens.

Spurlock takes the viewer into the dark underbelly of rats' innards ... depicts how these cunning creates operate according to their environment(s) and various, disparate human Rattus Rattus perspectives.

A must see for any American.

I really liked this new film by Morgan Spurlock. Personally I feel the whole horror-aspect (and the fact that some people seem to take offense to it)is a little overblown. For me the filmmakers created just the right amount of tension to tell a fascinating story about creatures that secretly live among us. They - the rats - are like us in many ways. Their way of living mirrors our own societies in many ways. And as we are told they will probably outlast us. Personally I saw the humans in this film as the bad guys. The film makes this pretty clear I think. All in all a very enjoyable film that will make me think twice about going out to diner.

So, this just popped up on Netflix, I was pretty excited thinking this was the Rat film I had been waiting for by the same people who did Black Fish. If you haven't seen Black Fish please do! Now, this film was not the one I had been waiting for at all. Made by Discovery channel I thought it would still be insightful about the animal, instead it's a film glorifying the fear of an animal that already has a horrid reputation in the world. They made the rat into nothing short of a Hollywood monster that's the reason for all the bad in the world. It's plainly disgusting. A simple ploy to make more people afraid of the small mammal and seek out to kill more of them. Discovery channel has turned into nothing short of fear mongering bully.

I have a rule. I rate documentaries with: 7 if it is great. 6 if it is good. 5 if it is less than good.

The reason is: Docs have lower ceilling and higher floors, because they are all at least an extensive view/opinion on something (even if it is morally or factually wrong), and at most they are all edits of real life (no matter how long the doc is and how factual it is, there is subjetivity and therefore not the real thing).

This one is really disgusting, and it gets to you that this is a problem that we have and would have with graphic imagery. They are a plague, and they are ready to survive even more than we are.

This is by far the best documentary I have seen covering every aspect of vermin infestation. The only thing missing was the issue regarding the groundbreaking debut of Gambian pouched rat all across US.