Asking for a Friend
2019 · 25m
Directed by Kelsey Bollig
Genres: comedy, crime, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
Blake comes home to find her roommate Q has killed someone in their apartment, and the two best friends decide to dispose of the body themselves.
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The scouts
A body-disposal buddy comedy that treats the moral collapse of friendship like a logistics problem—absurdist enough to dodge the true-crime cliché, dark enough to make you uncomfortable for laughing. This is the kind of premise that makes other scouts nervous, which is exactly why it works.
Bollig demonstrates sharp control of tone and pacing within the dark comedy tradition, though the film's absurdist register occasionally undercuts the formal tension between intimacy and transgression that could elevate it beyond genre exercise.
The film's greatest asset is the specific chemistry between Blake and Q—a performance choice that sells the implausibility of the premise by grounding it in genuine friendship first, which makes every dark-comic beat land harder than it should on a 25-minute budget.