Adams was later exonerated and released from prison. Morris couldn't have known when he began filming The Thin Blue Line that his work would lead to Adams' release. George Mendonca's topiary garden Morris does, however, seem to have a sense of the direction each of his films will take once the cameras start rolling. In Fast, Cheap , the four subjects do not know each other, do not interact, and at first seem to have little in common. As the film progresses, the philosophical connections between the men, though unstated, become increasingly evident.
Themes quietly emerge.
In that way, Fast, Cheap has much in common with Morris' earlier works. That movie is ostensibly about pet cemeteries, but it really isn't about pet cemeteries at all. Instead, there is a whole set of connections set up between these characters that are surprising and unexpected, and the scope of the film becomes much broader than you'd expect from the underlying subject matter. Gradually, these themes emerge, and begin to take over the movie. In Fast, Cheap , there are four characters who have little to do with each other, and whose life works are divergent.