Reflections on Practice: Harm Reduction

The scouts

It's a three-minute think-piece dressed up as documentary—exactly the kind of worthy-but-safe ethical hand-wringing that gets festival applause and changes nothing. Wild's done more provocative work; this one feels like she's arguing with her own restraint.

A formally precise essay film that inherits the best of NFB's didactic tradition while resisting easy moralizing—the debate structure becomes its own argument, and the economy of three minutes forces every word to earn its weight. This is how you make a philosophical inquiry breathe.

The real move is Wild's choice to let silence do the negotiating work between the two voices—no manipulative score, no visual editorial hand-holding, just the space where disagreement *actually* lives. That restraint is what makes it feel alive.