My Great Funeral Movie
2022 · 8m · USA
Directed by Adam Bernet
Genres: comedy, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
A man's final wish is a video played at his funeral in which he announces his death and walks his loved ones through what happened, or what could have happened — electrocution, murder by mobsters, poisoned by leftovers, et al.
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Funeral video where the deceased reenacts every plausible cause of his own death. Electrocution. Mobsters. Bad leftovers. He's having a great time. Everyone else, less so.
Adam Bernet's morbid funeral-meta-comedy is a Norm Macdonald conceit pushed to its proper formal end — the cycle structure is the joke and apparently it's earned.
A man's posthumous slideshow of every absurd way he might have died, addressed to the mourners actually watching — the small-TV-wheeled-out-to-the-congregation framing is the right delivery mechanism for a one-joke premise pushed to feature commitment.