I too spent my childhood obsessed with David Macaulay books and continually reminded of the precarity of the middle class during those Clinton years. The editing is my favorite element at work here, but the Straub vibes are strong with this one, mixing portraiture with negative space, lots of scenes couched in corners (of the frame, of rooms). "We are fortunate to be alive at this moment in history." A movie for brain-forwards in a bodied world of horrors remembered on videotape, and the radio, until the photography-seeing lesson reorients the hermeneutical lens. Nobody's a winner but "I had to do what I had to do."