There Will Be Crumbs

The scouts

Girl Scouts turf war played completely straight as a noir-adjacent power struggle—it's the kind of absurdist escalation that shouldn't work but does, because Bo refuses to wink at the premise. Everyone else would've turned this into a cute parody; Felix knows better.

The film's debt to satirical comedy tradition is formally assured, with sharp editing that mirrors the competitive rhythms of its subjects, though the premise itself lacks the thematic depth that would elevate it into sustained programmatic resonance.

The decision to shoot the cookie-selling conflict with the visual grammar and tension of actual territorial dispute—treating nine-year-olds like seasoned operators—is the single choice that transforms a one-joke premise into something that actually lands.