Last night Spike Jonze and his pal Kanye premiered their short film; “We Were Once A Fairytale,” directed by Spike Jonze to a surprised audience at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Originally produced to be the music video for Kanye, the pair decided to bar it and run it as a legit short film. Funnily enough according to the Daily Swarm; “The short…Walks the fine line between self aggrandisement and self mockery that runs through all of Kanye’s endeavors. But the film making is on point.”
In the film, Kanye plays himself drunk at a club acting belligerent and boastful, telling starstruck club-goers that the song playing in the club is his. He wanders into a side room where he encounters a beautiful woman. They start having sex and then he passes out on her leopard print dress. When he comes to, he finds himself in the VIP room with his pants down – he was hallucinating and fucking the pillow. The realisation startles him and he rushes to the bathroom where he vomits 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 then with his hand rips out a small furry rodent, like a demon, only its quite cute. When Kanye realises it’s connected to him with an umbilical cord, he pulls it hard, ripping it out of him for good. He then puts the demon on the sink and hands him a tiny bowie knife to fit the critter’s scale who then uses it to commit hari kari.
Kanye West, you either love him or you don’t. Sure he throws off some really wack comments usually whilst comparing himself to god, but hey you have to respect him for being so open about how he feels. No word on what’s going on release wise, but you can be sure that it’ll end up online somewhere soon.
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