the new breed of candid camera?

Over the summer I saw this experimental film called Railed, directed by Ryan Fox and produced by our friend Kelly Brown. There's a great write up about it here. It's a totally new way of using feature length film to entertain audiences, and gives new meaning to the traditional candid camera. Here's what it's about, briefly:

The film is a reality-movie/staged-documentary. Think Real World-meets-Darjeeling Limited.

There are only two actors in the film--the rest are just unsuspecting passengers aboard a cross-country train. The actors, a man and a woman, break into a lover's quarrel in a busy train car. Then, unscripted, they seek the guidance of the other non-actor passengers on the train.

The whole film was shot with strategically placed hidden cameras.

I wouldn't even call it a film; it feels more like a social experiment caught on camera. It's an amazingly clever look at the human condition--sometimes funny, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes heartwarming. Railed shows us how we treat strangers in need and how everyone thinks they have the answer to our problems.