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Hara Kiri

By Golu
This experimental indie completely misses the mark from start to finish. Both leads, who never leave the screen for a single scene, come across as thoroughly unlikeable and honestly hard to sit through. And on top of that, without any real story holding things together, it's tough to see why anyone would expect an audience to stick around for something like this. Beto and August cross paths at a skate park in LA, and there's instant chemistry between them right away. They connect over their shared love of skateboarding, some seriously destructive habits, and deep conversations about life and death. The two make a pact to end their lives together, and the film follows their final day as they cause chaos across the city, stealing a car at one point, even threatening to kill a young woman at another. And that's essentially the whole movie, just these two guys wandering the city doing random, reckless things. The whole thing feels completely aimless and lacking any real craft, ...
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Hara Kiri

By Golu

This experimental indie completely misses the mark from start to finish. Both leads, who never leave the screen for a single scene, come across as thoroughly unlikeable and honestly hard to sit through. And on top of that, without any real story holding things together, it's tough to see why anyone would expect an audience to stick around for something like this.

Beto and August cross paths at a skate park in LA, and there's instant chemistry between them right away. They connect over their shared love of skateboarding, some seriously destructive habits, and deep conversations about life and death. The two make a pact to end their lives together, and the film follows their final day as they cause chaos across the city, stealing a car at one point, even threatening to kill a young woman at another. And that's essentially the whole movie, just these two guys wandering the city doing random, reckless things.

The whole thing feels completely aimless and lacking any real craft, like it has no clue what story it's trying to tell or what point it's trying to make. Nothing these two do feels worth discussing, and a lot of their behavior honestly comes off as repulsive. It plays like the director just told them to spend a day roaming around, do whatever they felt like, and got it all on camera, nothing more thought out than that. There's zero chemistry between the two actors, and genuinely no reason the film needed to frame them as a gay couple. They could've just as easily been straight friends or a straight couple, their sexuality adds nothing to the story. There's also no real explanation or motivation given for why they'd want to end their lives. This whole film reeks of unresolved trauma with nothing done to actually explore it. (0/10)

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