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The scouts

Rotoscoped stop motion built from kids' testimony about money and gender should be a mess of competing languages, but Reis commits so fully to the surrealism that it becomes its own logic—the kind of willful formal choice that makes you forget to ask whether it 'works.'

The marriage of documentary speech and animated form positions itself deliberately against both traditions—essay film and children's animation alike—which is interesting, though the execution occasionally confuses formal innovation with thematic clarity.

The decision to rotoscope children's voices into stop-motion puppets rather than simply animate or document them is what rescues this from either camp; it's a single commitment that transforms testimony into something genuinely uncanny and tactile.