{"id":2570,"date":"2018-04-13T20:06:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T00:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2018-04-13T20:06:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T00:06:03","slug":"dot-podcast-ep57-mole-man-doc-director-guy-fiorita-with-audiobook-excerpt-from-the-shape-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2018\/04\/13\/dot-podcast-ep57-mole-man-doc-director-guy-fiorita-with-audiobook-excerpt-from-the-shape-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"DoT Podcast EP57: Mole Man Doc Director Guy Fiorita with Audiobook Excerpt from The Shape of Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in March, I saw this great film at the Salem Film Festival<\/a>. The festival focuses on documentaries, and the film is Mole Man, directed by Fiorita, who was in attendance. What I thought I was going to see was a quirky portrait of a 66-year-old man in Western Pennsylvania who has built this labyrinthine complex in the woods behind his parents\u2019 house. And that\u2019s where the film begins \u2013 we see Ron salvaging things from abandoned houses, picking through things that got left behind, and piling wood and sinks and bags of clocks on this tiny motorbike and bringing them back to this giant collection. It\u2019s very whimsical, and Ron is a wonderful character. But then the movie unfolds to touch on so many things \u2013 autism, family dynamics, economic depression in small town America. Toward the end, it even becomes kind of an adventure film as the characters try to find this mansion Ron keeps describing. If they can locate it, it might help save Ron\u2019s life. <\/p>\n