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2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by Tynan DeLong
Genres: comedy, experimental
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
A man contemplates taking acid while his friend films him, deliberating dosage, knife placement, and whether he's actually ready — clueless preparation tilting slowly into psychedelic odyssey.
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A drug movie that never gets to the drugs — just stalling, knife-flipping, second-guessing. The unglamorous prologue most films cut. Bless.
The dithering pre-trip anxiety most drug movies skip becomes the whole movie here — Colin Burgess and Tynan DeLong have made this loitering-as-comedy register their own. A small, specific pleasure.
All pre-trip anxiety with Colin Burgess loitering on the dosage question is the funniest part of any drug movie and most drug movies skip it. The dithering IS the film, weaponized as ethnography.