Hybrid

This was a very strange documentary. But I suppose it had to be considering the topic. One might find it difficult to even think about how one could make a documentary about corn. There was a lot of archival footage, however of this seemingly mad scientist of corn. It was surprising to hear that many individuals did not want to take the better hybrid corn from Milford because it seemed to be against nature. I got a kick out of the stop motion animations they had of corn mating.

Milford lived for such a long time and even after his factories closed down he still mixed and bred corn. He seemed like a very eccentric individual from the accounts as well as the footage. I think the very experimental nature of the film matched that.

I wish it had been a little shorter. Stock footage and stop motion about corn can only be interesting for so long. There were long periods of landscape that I found to be only filler.