Filmmaker Luke Lorentzen discovers an exciting world of 'Fast and Furious'-style ambulance driving, but one that raises socio-political issues as well.
Documentary “Midnight Family” follows a private ambulance service on an exhilarating rise through the streets of Mexico City.
He also looked to the obsessive experiential quality of documentaries out of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab, with their knack for giving moving images a tactile expressiveness. That approach gives the film’s craziest sequences a rollercoaster immediacy.One high-speed run, in which Juan hit the pedal to brake ahead of a rival ambulance, bristles like an excerpt from “The Fast and the Furious.” Lorentzen was too wrapped up in such moments to worry much about the risks.
Such elements were much easier to convey than the often disturbing ethical questions that came into play. “The deeper I got into it, the more I realized there were these really big socio-political questions at the center of it,” said Lorentzen, whose Mexican residencies were juggled with four seasons working on Netflix’s “Last Chance U.”
“That balance between good and bad was a really subtle palette of emotions, and I didn’t have the material to get that across until really late.”
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