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Cult Review
Senior Film Conservator
If you have five minutes and a weird sense of humor about bureaucratic nonsense, sure. It’s a fast watch. If you need a narrative or, I don't know, a point to exist, you’re going to be bored to tears. It’s for the folks who like reading those weird 'Customer Service Horror Stories' threads on the internet, but in a grainy, old-school format.
Honestly, the whole thing feels like a fever dream you’d have after working a desk job for too long. It’s just letters. You see the handwriting. You hear the tone, or at least you imagine it.
Some of these people are just mean for no reason. It’s like they spent three hours drafting a complaint about a toaster. I’ve seen this kind of petty energy in Cracked Ice, where the chaos just feels so... deliberate.
There isn’t much to analyze here. It’s a document of human annoyance. The camera just sits there on the paper. It forces you to read. It’s like being back in school, but the homework is written by someone who is clearly having a mid-life crisis over a shipping error.
Watching this made me think about how much energy we waste on complaining. It’s not quite as chaotic as Short and Snappy, but it shares that same weird, brief energy. You get the sense that the person writing the letter was probably pacing around their living room, breathing heavily, feeling like they were changing the world. In reality, they were just bothering a clerk who didn't get paid enough.
Is it funny? Sometimes. Mostly it’s just sad in a funny way. It’s definitely not as grand as Captain Kidd, but it’s not trying to be. It’s just five minutes of people acting like fools. I guess that’s enough.