Shut Up, Little Man (2010)

My documentary kick continues with this funny and in some ways disturbing film about two twenty-something room mates, Eddie Lee Sausage and Mitchell D, who record their drunk neighbors, Peter and Ray, as they yell at each other.  Soon what begins as just a fun way to deal with their loud neighbors takes a life of its own.  Soon the recordings spread across the country inspiring everything from comic books, plays, puppet shows and movies.  Immorally exploiting another human being has never been so rationalized for comic and pseudo-artistic reasons.  If only Matthew Bate, the director, had explored the irony that he, himself, was exploiting his subjects too and might have delved deeper into the moral pickle that is voyeurism.  Kudos though for the parallel comparison with the Internet and our youTube society.  Grade: B+