Out of the work of Wiseman's I've been able to see, the subjects with much more dialogue between people are the best films for me. This is the closest to an epic for documentaries; Wiseman is able to take small everyday conversations - such as a black woman left confused by the machinations of Social Security - and make them as exhausting and emotionally complex as an hour long skirmish would be in a war film. The word Kafka-esque is fitting, but this reality feels far more haphazard.

The very real bureaucratic hoops and hurdles placed to systematically discourage and confuse the unwashed masses takes away much of the humor associated with the word 'Kafka-esque".