Make a Wish
2025 · 4m · United Kingdom
Directed by Justyna Green
Genres: animation, comedy, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
Struggling to decide whether to try for a baby with Sausage, Womb must face her fears when she encounters the Period Poo Genie — an encounter that offers a moment of clarity on the many ways of living a full life, with or without motherhood.
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The scouts
A Period Poo Genie dispensing life wisdom about motherhood—this is exactly the kind of feral, unapologetic premise that makes pearl-clutchers uncomfortable and proves animation is the only medium brave enough to actually say something. Green swings for the absurd and lands it, refusing every urge to soften the joke or make the anxiety palatable.
While the surrealist vocabulary is assured, the film trades genuine structural consideration for shock-value naming; it's more committed to provocation than to the formal precision that would elevate this beyond a one-joke premise with decent visual execution.
The decision to treat the Genie's grotesque appearance with complete visual sincerity—no winking, no softening—is what actually makes the emotional core land; that refusal to undercut the absurdity with self-aware irony is what gives Womb's moment of clarity real weight.
Reviews
Though the Genie's appearance is outrageous, even gross, the encounter offers Womb a profound moment of clarity, and a glimpse at the many ways of living a full life, with or without motherhood.