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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
It starts horrifying, continues kinda strange, and then ends... oddly empty.
If you watched it and first thought: "well, what the fuck was even the point of that?!", look at the comments, look at the reviews, and that's when it will hit you just how depressing this debut short film really is.
Put simply, John Procter is a work drone living a monotonous life that stumbles upon the fiery corpse of a man living the same monotonous life who finally decided he couldn't stand it anymore. And this realization sends Procter into tears, possibly thinking to himself:
How long until that person becomes me?
Sooometiiiiimes...
I'M A CREEP THAT PLAYS MOOONOPOLYYY
Unironically, Reed is not the first human AT ALL to question the repetitious motifs and bullshit stipulations inherent to every major religion, sect, and offshoot but HOLY SHIT JUST LISTENING TO HUGH GRANT TALK ABOUT RELIGION MADE THE AUDIENCE JIZZ.
We need a lot more out-of-typecast Hugh Grant performances, and congrats to Beck, Woods, Thatcher and East for also bringing this insane 2 hour dissertation together!