TINY: A Story About Living Small: come for the self-satisfied sustainability environmental perspective, stay for one of the filmmakers (Merete Mueller) slowly breaking up with the other (Christopher Smith) as his family low key shades him by implying that he hasn’t done much with his life and this project will help him mature. I watched most of TINY: A Story About Living Small two times with mom because we were so engrossed with what was happening to Smith. Smith seemed to be on the verge of losing his job or at least underemployed. He definitely knew nothing about taking care of construction tools. I have negative abilities as a practical human, but for the love of God, I own a saw-bring it inside, don’t let it rust!
When TINY: A Story About Living Small was not focused on Smith’s unraveling life and hobby, it felt like a pleasant infomercial against McMansions, which is fine, but most people can’t afford McMansions so basically the documentary is preaching to the choir and patting itself on the back. Most people can barely afford rent so if there is an epidemic of McMansions that people are trying to fight against, TINY: A Story About Living Small will do crap all in the fight against those developments. TINY: A Story About Living Small’s echo chamber unwittingly indicts itself for being so absorbed in their narrow vision of the world that they missed an opportunity to address broader housing issues faced by US and evangelize about their projects to people other than McMansion lovers.
Side note: beautiful cats are in TINY: A Story About Living Small.