This piece of video—I have a hard time calling it a movie—lowers the low-effort first person shooter “found footage” conceit to a lower depth than I’ve seen before, by not only discarding the “found” aspect that explains why we’re even seeing the film, but discarding the “filmed” found-footage idea entirely.
This series of events—I have a hard time calling it a story—center around a man who has bought a “daruma”, a Japanese good luck doll, and the entire movie is filmed, through an annoying fish-eye lens the entire time, from the doll’s perspective. Diegetically, the doll doesn’t contain a camera, nor is it possessed, nor alive in any way, but for some reason the entire movie is filmed from the doll’s perspective. This results in a few annoying conceits, such as the doll always needing to be turned to face anything the filmmaker wants us to see, as well as necessitating some of the “rules” the doll comes with (which the man, of course, accepts as fact and zealously makes sure to always follow without question, because, movie) such as that the man must always keep the doll with him.
The man gets more and more unhinged in what I will admit is an entertaining performance from the lead actor, even if the way it’s written it makes no sense.
Senseless events ensue, leading up to a conclusion that somehow manages to simultaneously be both completely illogical and boringly predictable (hint: the man spends the better part of the movie carrying a hammer around, and he spends the better part of the movie arguing with his girlfriend; can you add 2+2 together?)