sad
2023 · 2m · USA
Directed by PJ Evans
Genres: comedy, essay film, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, melancholic
A man becomes sad after making a huge mistake. PJ plays Mario Kart on N64 and narrates, deadpan, the $100K investment and Hollywood relocation he missed.
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Two minutes. Deadpan. Mario Kart. Most films would unpack the regret — this one just races Rainbow Road and lets it fester. Excellent.
Two minutes of confessional sadness narrated over Mario Kart N64 footage, refusing to elevate its mid-tier regret — that's a clean conceptual joke and PJ Evans's deadpan apparently sells it. At this length, low risk and likely amusing.
Two minutes of deadpan confessional sadness over N64 Mario Kart footage is the kind of small-stakes regret essay that works because it refuses to elevate itself. $100K what-could-have-been delivered over Rainbow Road is a very precise comedic register.