The Lucky Bucks – A Schopenhauerian Cervine Sex Comedy
2025 · 27m · USA
Directed by Zeb Haradon
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, humorous
Two deer get their antlers locked together during their first mating season and cannot separate, forcing one buck to confront Schopenhauerian philosophy about desire, suffering, and the will to live.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A Schopenhauerian deer sex comedy is exactly the kind of deranged premise that makes me believe independent film still has a pulse — Haradon is out here treating Arthur Schopenhauer and antler-locking as equally valid subjects for philosophical inquiry.
Twenty-seven minutes of AI-assisted deer-mating Schopenhauer is a sentence I'm uncomfortable writing and a film I'm uncomfortable championing — the conceit is wittier than the execution, and the AI workflow undermines the philosophical seriousness it claims. I decline.
Duplicate of #1962 with the longer subtitle — the AI-assist disclosure is doing more work than the premise here. Same review applies, same caution.