January 15

It is Wednesday, which is always one of the busiest days of the week for me (NEW COMIC BOOK DAY) and so with the Genre-ary, it is time for another documentary short. I found this one on YouTube entitled The Rocket on the Roof and it was wild.

A doc crew investigates a rocket that is on the roof of a building that no one seems to know or care about. It is a large red rocket with USA on it, and the questions about how it got there or why it is there abound.

Thing is, our lead face of the doc, Wesley, is anything but outgoing. He would seem to be quite timid at times and has not been able to overcome his own fears and uncertainties to try and answer the nagging questions about the rocket.

When Wesley comes across the former manager of the building, Harry, things seem to take a weird turn. The manager had his own suspicions about the rocket and felt like a very sketchy individual.

The meeting with Harry was the incentive for Wesley to climb the fire escape and finally get a close up view of the rocket.

The doc’s theme of unanswered questions and the challenges of human nature speak through clearly in this doc short. It is just over thirteen minutes long, but it is a fun, crazy ride. The end may feel like a letdown, but I do think that is part of the point.