"In the film, Kanye plays himself drunk at a club acting belligerentand boastful, telling starstruck club-goers that the song playing inthe club is his. He wanders into a side room where he encounters abeautiful woman. They start having sex and then he passes out on herleopard print dress. When he comes to, he finds himself in the VIProom with his pants down — he was hallucinating and f—ing the pillow.The realization startles him and he rushes to the bathroom where hevomits what look like rose petals.
Then it gets weird.
Kanye finds a bowie knife in the bathroom and cuts into his stomach,spilling a torrent of more petals. He digs in the knife deeper and thenwith his hand rips out a small furry rodent, like a demon, only it'squite cute. When Kanye realizes it's connected to him with an umbilicalcord, he pulls it hard, ripping it out of him for good. He then putsthe demon on the sink and hands him a tiny bowie knife to fit thecritter’s scale who then uses it to commit hari kari.
The short, written and directed by Spike Jonze, walks the fine line between self aggrandizement and self mockery that runs through all of Kanye’s endeavors. But the filmmaking is on point, with cinematography and sound design that authentically renders that feeling of being really disoriented in a nightclub. One doesn’t need to love Kanye to love the film, but the Jonze short takes what people love and hate about Kanye’s persona and then pushes it into a new, trippy realm. And in case you’re wondering, the answer is no, Kanye still can’t act. The film features the song “See you in my Nightmares” from 808s and Heartbreaks, remixed and pretty severely tweaked by Spike Jonze’s brother and N.A.S.A.‘s Squeak E. Clean (Sam Spiegel)."
-Alex Sherman
Also, It will be 14 minutes long. That's always a plus.
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