Quote:
"The rodent-heroes [in Rat Life and Diet in North America] are revolutionaries and stand-in for Vietnam War resisters, who escape from captivity in the United States and successfully cross the border into Canada—which is now a countercultural dream-come-true, allowing the animals to bliss out amid fruit and flowers accompanied by a groovy soundtrack. With this coherent storyline and commitment to a political cause, [Joyce] Wieland diverges from the antinarrative stance taken by devotees of the Structural Film movement."
-- Johanne Sloan

Source:
Sloan, Johanne. "Mutable Views: Landscape at the Intersection of Cinema and Contemporary Art." In The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema, edited by Janine Marchessault and Will Straw. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. (p. 57)