"He never asked me for anything. I wish I had that kind of relationship with everybody."
"Very early on, someone took a huge crap right next to the house. That was pretty unpleasant."
"Have you learned anything unique about me through this process?"
"I'm trying really hard not to let the lack of permanence and rootedness influence my experience of tiny house living."
Congratulations, documentary. You've made me hate tiny houses, and the tiny-minded souls that live in them. And Portland.
Apparently tiny houses full of obnoxious, self-centered people, who think they're special and better than normal people.
I wonder whether the hippies in the 1960ies and 1970ies were like that? So supercilious?
Actually, the documentary is technically well made. They probably could have pulled off an insightful documentary about tiny houses, but chose instead to focus on the self-absorbed people who apparently dwell in them, based on thefar-fetched assumption that people who live in or build a trailer (let's face it, that's what they are) must somehow all have fascinating stories to tell.
By the way, tiny houses, usually going by the name of "Bauwagen" ("construction Trailer"), have been a microtrend in Germany since at least the 1980ies. I know people who have lived in them, in most larger cities there are projects where people dwell their tiny houses in public spaces ("Wagenburgen"), only there has never been such a media hype about it. That would have been an interesting angle for the documentary to explore, though.
I've noted the trend in documentaries to pretend to be on a subject, only to then refuse to give you any solid information but to turn it entirely into a people story.
