Point and shoot
2016 · 6m · Estados Unidos
Directed by Thomas Leisten Schneider
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
When an attempted burglary turns into an unlikely car-jacking, two aspiring criminals learn an important lesson: only practice makes perfect.
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A six-minute heist film that weaponizes incompetence as philosophy—two criminals so catastrophically bad at crime that failure becomes the actual plot, not ironic window dressing. This is the kind of premise that makes you laugh because the filmmakers committed to the absurd premise without winking at it.
Schneider works in the lineage of Keatonesque physical comedy and crime-caper structure, but the execution feels slight for its ambitions; the formal choices—pacing, editing rhythm—don't quite elevate the premise beyond a sketch with a punchline.
The entire film lives in the decision to play the criminals' failures with total deadpan sincerity rather than mugging for the camera; that commitment to understatement in a 6-minute format is what makes the absurdist logic actually land.