Tiny Cinema

 Length: 84 minutes Genres: Horror - Comedy

Summary: A mysterious man tells six twisted tales of seemingly unconnected strangers whose lives will change in incredible and bizarre ways. As reality unravels, each person must battle incredible challenges from a multiverse while seeking answers on the essential questions of life, death, love and the future.

Stories broken down:

For the first story, Game Night, we tag along with the Thompsons’ friends as they receive a happy welcome into their house for a night of games and laughter. What seems to start as a rather wholesome gathering of the couple and their friends, turns into a scene of inconceivable anxiety as Bert fails to understand his friend’s “that’s what she said” joke and gets obsessed with trying to uncover who “she” is. What follows is unfathomable chaos as he goes down the spiral of profound confusion and eventually a complete breakdown over something that is shockingly silly for the sane.

“Deep Impact” and its somewhat mundane setting at the start is hardly foretelling of the mind-boggling state of utter confusion and frenzy that will soon emerge. Vick goes to deliver a strange package addressed to someone with whom he shares his name and meets a rather strange old man who claims to be his future self. Stranded there facing the dilemma of his life as he’s been told that the sexual manner of DNA exchange with his old self is the only way to stop the destruction of the earth; Vick chooses the “heroic” path.

“Edna” allows us a peek at something that seems relatively comforting at first because of its universal relatability of love-craving but soon shows its real horrific face. Edna stands over a bridge and contemplates ending her lonely, loveless life, having no clue that within seconds she will find love in the form of a male corpse in a body bag. She takes the corpse home and names him Ricky. Ricky is then found with Edna, doing everything a couple does in a world that seems alarmingly chill with a corpse sitting in a restaurant.

“Motherfucker” being too literal in all possible sense, is the story of a joke between Italian mobsters going too far. Nothing is ever “tiny” in this movie despite its name. Tutti’s inappropriate sexual joke about Tony’s mother has him tied up in a car trunk, taken to Tony’s house, and forced to make his joke come true.

The goofiest of the lot, “Daddy’s home”, elevates the risk meter of blind dating to a terminal level. The bold move of snorting cocaine offered by his date lands Sam in a body horror nightmare which starts with the knowledge of the “cocaine” actually being the girl’s father’s ashes. The change starts small with his sudden appreciation of dad jokes and soon turns into a much more serious infestation of dad-like qualities which basically ruins his life.

Ending: 

Ricky is reborn as Cider at Kritika county hospital. The manner of showing the name of the hospital is intentionally attention-drawing. There’s a nail-biting effect left by it and that fades away by the time Kritika express turns out to be the name of the company where Vick works. Drawing attention to that detail once again only to get the audience excited and then deserting it completely, might be a prank that can’t be put past this movie.

Notes - Thoughts

In my own personal opinion I wasn't able to enjoy this movie as I hoped. It felt like a lot was lacked in the executiton and overall visuals. Some of the acting could've helped portray it all out and some of the jokes may even needed to be slimmed down in a way. The breakdown of stories was interesting and really did have inspo behind the layout. 

Rating: Disliked